ISBN10: 0195530314, ISBN13: 9780195530315, [publisher: Melbourne Oxford University Press.] Hardcover First Edition Book condition is very good. Hard cover. Dust jacket is very except for tear in front middle to bottom which seems to be repaired previous owner. Ex-Library with library paper slip on first fly leaf page, plus sticker bar code bottom right, minor damage on back of front book board lower left-hand corner. Spine intact. Book board front has sticky tape residue top and bottom from dust jacket, same as back book board. Text body clean. Book block clean. Over-all a great and neat copy. With this Volume, Dr Robson captures the ebb and flow of the past, through times of economic prosperity and depression, through times of peace and war. The themes and events - the spread of settlements, the struggle for social and cultural betterment; the scant regard for preservation of the land and its resources; backward-looking loyalty and devotion to the empire and a fearful resistance to change, buttressed by anti-democratic political and social institutions; the troubling but often imperfectly heard echoes of the past; poverty; disease; depravation; and war itself - are woven together with warmth and compassion and an eye for significant detail. Always Dr. Robson pauses to catch the image and character of the individuals and groups who, whether moving with or against the tide, give life are at the heart of his narrative. The heroes of his account are not only men and wom ...
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