Botany Bay: Where histories meetAllen & Unwin, 1 thg 7, 2005 - 272 trang Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia. In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers on a journey to find what lies behind, beneath and beyond these familiar associations. Drawing on stories, objects, images, memories and the landscape itself, she collects the threads of other pasts to weave a rich, compelling and often surprising account. Local meanings jostle with national mythologies, Aboriginal remembrance disturbs white forgetting, the natural environment struggles for survival amid the smokestacks. In the process, Botany Bay becomes a site for meditating on questions of history, myth, memory and politics in Australia. Botany Bay: where histories meet explores the role both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal history-making plays in creating and sustaining local and national communities. |
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2 SYDNEYS BACKDOOR | 37 |
3 BOOMERANGS FOR SALE | 63 |
4 A LITTLE PIECE OF FRANCE | 91 |
5 FROM SHANTYTOWNS TO SUBURBS | 118 |
6 THE PAST AS FUTURE | 144 |
7 REMEMBERING DISPOSSESSION AND SURVIVAL | 174 |
Notes | 202 |
Bibliography | 226 |
Index | 243 |
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Abori Aboriginal people living Aboriginal people's Aboriginal presence Aboriginal reserve Aboriginal settlement Aborigines Welfare Ardler arrival Australian Historical Banks Bay's Bay’s north head became blacks Board boomerang Botany Bay Botany Bay Project Botany Bay’s north British broadsheet camp Canberra Captain Cook Captain Cook’s Landing celebrating ceremony claimed Coast Hospital colonial commemorative Cook's Landing Cook’s Landing Place cultural described encounter Endeavour foreshores French ginal Happy Valley headland historians imagined indigenous Iris Williams JNSWLC Journal Kurnell Landing Place reserve landscape Lapérouse Lapérouse expedition Lapérouse Museum late memory Mitchell Library monument narrative native nature nineteenth century non-Aboriginal north shore original past period Perouse Aboriginal Phillip Port Botany Port Jackson Press Protector of Aborigines Randwick Randwick Municipal Council re-enactment residents shantytowns ships significance South Wales SRNSW story suburb Sydney Cove Sydney Morning Herald Sydney’s Timbery tion tourist twentieth century visitors voyage Yarra Bay
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