The History of Tasmania

by West, John

• ISBN13: 9781108030793
• ISBN10: 1108030793
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-22
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

John West (1809-1873) was an English-born minister who received a Colonial Missionary Society post in Tasmania in 1838. West became an outspoken opponent of the ongoing government policy of transporting convicts from Britain to Tasmania. Around 1847 a wealthy supporter approached West to write the colony's history, although it had been a British territory only since 1803. West accepted the task and, amid his campaigning and other responsibilities, completed this two-volume work which was published in 1852. It is divided between a straightforward narrative of events and thematic issues such as the treatment of the Aboriginal peoples and the issue of the convict transport system. In Volume 2, the first ten sections discuss the early encounters with Europeans and the subsequent mistreatment of the native people in Tasmania. The remainder of the volume considers the island's development as a penal colony.

Table of Contents

Discovery

Anthony Van Diemen, governor of Batavia

Colonel Purry's project

From 1803 go 1824

Van Diemen's Land occupied

Hobart Town named

Lieutenant E. Lord acting lieutenant-governor

Form of colonial government

Lieutenant-Governor Sorrell

Sheep introduced

Whaling

Religious efforts

Bill for better administration of justice

From 1824 to 1836

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur, superintendent at Honduras

Rise of the Australian press

Van Diemen's Land Company formed

State of society at Hobart

Dispute between Jennings and Montagu

Grammar school

Bank of Van Diemen's Land

Liabilities of publicans

Endowment of emigrants with land

Van Diemen's Land divided into counties

Brisbane grants

Wakefield's colonization scheme

Bank of Australasia

Glorious 23rd of May!

Mr. W. Bryan's disagreement with Arthur

'True Colonist'

Recall of Arthur

From 1836 to 1843

Snodgrass acting-governor

Difficulties respecting the churches

Education

Distillation forbidden

Franklin arranges probation system

From 1843 to 1847

Sir William Denison meets the twelve

Struggle against transportation

London agency

Lord J. Russell's speech

The 'Australias are One'

Zoology

Mammalia

Birds

Fishes

Reptiles

Insects

Mollusca

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