Macquarie

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 570 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history.Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australias destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society.He also helped shape Australias national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britains refuse, and under his rule many former convicts went on to become successful administrators, land owners and business people.However, the governors ambitions for the colony (which he lobbied to have renamed Australia) brought him into conflict with the continents original landowners, and he was responsible for the deaths of Aboriginal men, women and children, brutally killed in a military operation intended to create terror among local Indigenous people.So, was Macquarie the man who sowed the seeds of a great nation, or a tyrant who destroyed Aboriginal resistanceIn this, the most comprehensive biography yet of this fascinating colonial governor, acclaimed biographer Grantlee Kieza draws on Macquaries rich and detailed journals. He chronicles the life and times of a poor Scottish farm boy who joined the British army to make his fortune, saw wars on five continents and clawed his way to the top. Ultimately, Macquarie laid the foundations for a new nation, but, in the process, he played a part in the dispossession of the continents original people.Lover, fighter, egalitarian, autocrat - Lachlan Macquarie is a complex and engaging character who first envisaged the nation we call Australia.

ISBN: 9780733335907