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The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney by Grace Karskens (Paperback, 1994)

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A vivid recreation of the origins of the Sydney suburb of the Rocks that illuminates the real lives of the convicts and ex-convicts in the first forty years of white settlement. The Rocks is Sydney's earliest surviving neighbourhood. Grace Karskens builds up a vivid picture of the lives of its earliest white inhabitants. A wealth of historical documents, pictures, maps and archaeological evidence allows her to recover the words and gestures, tastes and habits, aspirations and fears, of the dealers, publicans, labourers, artisans, watermen, washerwomen, servants and prostitutes who lived there. What sort of town did these people make? What did it look like? How did they treat their neighbours? And what of other human relations-how did men and women behave sexually? What did they think was 'moral' behaviour? What were their marriages like? How did they bring up their children? Grace Karskens shows it was a place very different from the usual images of a brutal 'gaol colony'- it was, rather, a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity, dialogue and negotiation than by coercion, discipline and punishment.

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PublisherMelbourne University Publishing

ISBN-139780522848441

eBay Product ID (ePID)87680268

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameThe Rocks: Life in Early Sydney

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory

Publication Year1994

TypeTextbook

AuthorGrace Karskens

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height229 mm

Item Weight442 g

Item Width154 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia

Title_AuthorGrace Karskens