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MEN OF YESTERDAY
A Social History of the Western District Of Victoria 1834-1890
- By Margaret Kiddle -
Illustrated with Photographs
ISBN: 0522842089
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Published: 1983
Binding: HARDcover with Dustjacket 573 pages
Condition: UNread & displayed condition! HERE in MELBOURNE! A retired display
copy as illustrated!
Edition: FIRST EDITION: 1st printing
TIGHT, SCARCE HARDCOVER WITH DUSTJACKET ~ IN MELBOURNE ...
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Remains UNread - it was a duplicate gift so the display copy in a private collection. It is Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks within. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A nicely preserved copy - superb!
No discernible shelf wear to the actual green boards HARDcover itself, the interior is tight and spotlessly clean with 573 pages - including 10 pages of plates. THIS copy is the FIRST EDITION: 5th printing from 1983 - the Australian publishing by Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria.
There are many black and white photos & facsimile illustrations. Also with 5 illustrations plus 24 pages of plates and a colour frontispiece
SCARCE title - this is an UNread copy!!
In original emerald green boards with gold titles HARDcover binding, in publisher's dustjacket which are in excellent condition also - slightest edgewear from display(insignificant). A superb of the 5th reprinting with corrections.
(Stored with 2021!)
Measures approx. 9¾ x 6¾ inches or 24 x 18cms
SYNOPSIS ....
A social history of the sons of Lowland Scottish settlers who became the Squattocracy; the lives of station hands & itinerant pastoral workers & the effect of the gold rush on communities in Western Victoria.
Includes
p.5-6; Brief physical description (clothing, material possessions); p.6;
Huts, diet (eels, mussels, honey); p.6-7;
Hunting for kangaroos, emus, wild fowl, cooking with clay ovens, hot embers; p.7-8;
Kinship & marriage laws, intertribal conflict p.8;
Message stick or smoke signal summons to tribal gatherings at Mirraewuae marsh & Mt. Noorat for hunting, corroborees & trading; obsidian used for scraping & polishing weapons; p.8- 10;
General religious beliefs; p.11-12;
Corroborees; p.38;
Establishment of Native Protectorate 1838; p.61;
Attacks on shepherds; p.119-122; Abuse of Aboriginal women; p.122-130; Relations with settlers, list of outrages during 2 months (from Geelong Advertiser, Apr. 1842); Buntingdale Mission, Black Police; effect of contact; Mount Noorat, a sacred place of Aborigines taken by squatters.
About the Author
Margaret Kiddle was an Australian writer and historian. She wrote Moonbeam Stairs, West of Sunset, Caroline Chisholm, The Candle, and Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western District 1834 – 1890.
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