The People of Perth: A Social History of Western Australia's Capital City by C T Stannage

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps and sticky tape stains on inside pages. Significant wear to book corners and edges. Spine and book corners have been protected with book tape. Marks on foredges. Spine has cracked but binding has held. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Still are readable copy.

Stannage's social history of Perth describes the experiences of several generations of migrant settlers in Swan River from 1829 onwards. It shows the people of all classes at work and play, buying and selling, praying, going out to school, raising families, founding institutions, making laws, and engaging in municipal and colonial politics. (inside cover)

The book when published, was controversial. Some Perth City Councillors and older Perth families were offended. (Deborah Gare and Jenny Gregory (ed.) Tom Stannage: History from the Other Side, 2015)