Freedom On The Fatal Shore. Australia's First Colony

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Black Inc
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 497 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and tanning to pages present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: FREEDOM ON THE FATAL SHORE brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their own time , convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk: what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: 'This was not a society that had to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times.'

ISBN: 9781863952071