Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book edges, with minor insect damage to tail right corner of three preliminary pages. Wear to spine tail.Wear to foredges. Dust jacket is in very good condition with only minor wear and fading at spine. Numbered 45 of the limited first edition. Signed by Tom Stannage.
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)