A History of Tasmania

by Leslie Lloyd Robson

The second of a two-volume history of Tasmania, Robson here traces Tasmania's experience of colonial government and post-federation statehood from 1856 to the 1980s. The themes and events covered include: the spread of settlement and pursuit of material advancement; the scant regard for preservation of the land and its resources; 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; deprivation; and war. Robson has written an account which charts not only the history of Tasmania, but, in microcosm, also of Australia as a whole.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195530314
• ISBN13: 9780195530315
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 3.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"