Contents

pp v-vii

Abbreviations

pp viii-viii

List of maps

pp ix-ix

List of figures

pp x-x

List of tables

pp xi-xii

Notes on contributors

pp xiii-xv

Map

pp xvi-xxvi

Preface

pp xxvii-xxxii

Introduction

pp 1-14

PART I

pp 15-16

1 - The past 50,000 years: an archaeological view

pp 17-42

2 - Newcomers, c. 1600–1800

pp 43-67

3 - Convict transportation in global context, c. 1700–88

pp 68-90

4 - The early colonial presence, 1788–1822

pp 91-120

5 - Expansion, 1820–50

pp 121-148

6 - The advent of self-government, 1840s–90

pp 149-169

7 - The gold rushes of the 1850s

pp 170-188

8 - Colonial states and civil society, 1860–90

pp 189-217

9 - Rethinking the 1890s

pp 218-241

10 - Making the federal Commonwealth, 1890–1901

pp 242-266

PART II

pp 267-268

11 - Environmental transformations

pp 269-293

12 - Population and health

pp 294-314

13 - The economy

pp 315-341

14 - Indigenous and settler relations

pp 342-366

15 - Education

pp 367-390

16 - Law and regulation

pp 391-413

17 - Religion

pp 414-437

18 - Colonial science and technology

pp 438-461