This book focuses on the founding of British colonies and their development in Australia in the 1800s. (From book cover).

This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving these issues into

Explores the movement of, and interaction between, people before the 1800's.

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 ye