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PublisherAustralian Scholarly Publishing Pty, The Limited
ISBN-101922669458
ISBN-139781922669452
eBay Product ID (ePID)27057278257
Product Key Features
Book TitleAustralia's Tasman Wars : Colonial Australia and Conflict in New Zealand, 1800-1850
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Modern / 19th Century, Australia & New Zealand
Publication Year2023
GenreHistory
AuthorCraig Wilcox
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal359.0099308034
SynopsisThe British settlement in eastern Australia in 1788 and the strong establishment of the British colony of New South Wales created a maritime frontier in the Tasman Sea and Southwest Pacific. Maritime frontier conflict occurred from Tonga to Tahiti, from the New Hebrides to New Caledonia, and was just as frequent as the land frontier conflict on the Australian continent and often much worse. It was also completely different from the land conflict, being driven by commercial and sectarian alliances that involved almost every indigenous community, and much of that conflict involved missionaries, merchants, whalers, sealers, soldiers and sailors from Australia. This book closely examines the conflict in New Zealand as colonization by a recently colonized eastern-seaboard Australia, with New South Wales serving as the staging point for colonial expansion, in the context of British, French and American colonial expansion., This book closely examines the conflict in New Zealand in 1820-1859 by the recently British-colonized eastern-seaboard Australia (the strongly established colony of New South Wales), in the context of British, French, and American colonial expansion in the Pacific., The British lodgement in eastern Australia created a violent maritime frontier. Sealers and whalers, traders and missionaries, officials and runaways, soldiers and sailors-all these men left Australian ports for the islands of the Polynesian and Melanesian world to trade, preach, and fight. This book sees the fighting in New Zealand during the first half of the nineteenth century as part of Australian colonial history, and contrasts the violence of Australia's maritime frontier with its inland frontier.
LC Classification NumberV55
