{"product_id":"botany-bay-mirages-paperback-1","title":"Botany Bay Mirages - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Frost\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChallenges the web of powerful images which has shaped academic and popular thinking on the early settlement period.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first dozen years of European settlement of Australia are fixed in our minds by powerful images raised from an incomplete historical record. The reality was quite different. Alan Frost, after collecting a greatly expanded range of documents from archives around the world, sets the record straight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe images he challenges are immediately familiar: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* overcrowded and unhealthy English prison hulks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* the colony as a cheap solution to the convict problem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* hasty decisions based on overly optimistic assessment of the land's fertility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* a poorly equipped and managed First Fleet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* subsequent neglect by Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* long years of deprivation and bare survival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* callous treatment of Aborigines, and the unleashing of smallpox among them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* opportunistic and aberrant use of the notion of terra nullius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative and well-argued, Botany Bay Mirages contrasts the realities with the long-accepted illusions. It will reshape our thinking about our origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.25 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733335552249,"sku":"9780522876819","price":30.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/6QczvJsiO19780522876819_872f515d-e5b2-4c4e-8d90-02005f5b9b03.webp?v=1785414372","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/botany-bay-mirages-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}