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Informationen zum Autor Maria Nugent is a research fellow in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. Klappentext Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia. Drawing on stories, objects, images, memories, and the landscape itself, this work presents Botany Bay in all of its complex significance while investigating the roles that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal histories play in creating and sustaining local and national communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents..List of figures..Acknowledgments..Introduction: The road to Botany Bay..1. A place for stories..Captain Cook! colonial origins and hairy wild men..2. Sydney's backdoor..Isolating the city's unwanted at Botany Bay..3. boomerangs for sale..Tourism in the birthplace of the nation..4. A little piece of France..Commemorating the French at Botany Bay..5. From shantytowns to suburbs..Botany Bay's residential landscape..6. The past as future..Industrial development and environmental politics..7. Remembering dispossession and survival..Botany bay stories revisited..Notes..Bibliography..index
