Sydney Harbour : a history / Ian Hoskins
- Bib ID:
- 4586223
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hoskins, Ian
- Description:
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- Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2009
- 359 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921410161
- Summary:
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Summary: "Sydney Harbour explores the story of the waterway from the time of the Gameragal, Gadigal and others to contemporary debates about the future of the ʻworking harbourʾ. A beautifully written, compelling book, it lays out the interaction between the glittering harbour and the people who inhabited and shaped it and attached meaning to it."--Publisher description.
- Full contents:
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- Contents: 1. The indigenous harbour
- 2. The unexpected harbour
- 3. From convicts to commerce
- 4. A ʻcivilisedʾ harbour
- 5. Defending the harbour
- 6. A harbour of wonder, a harbour of filth
- 7. Planning the harbour 8. Workers and warriors
- 9. Modernism and its critics
- 10. The peopleʾs harbour.
- Notes:
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- Map on front and back lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Harbors -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Harbors -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Pictorial works
- Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
- Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.) -- History
- Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.) -- Pictorial works
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Description and travel
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- Pictorial works
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Pictorial works
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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