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Macquarie by Grantlee Kieza

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780733335921
Book Condition: Good
Author: Grantlee Kieza
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: ABC Books
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 525 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with book corners now protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still excellent. Large format trade paperback.

Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society.

He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's refuse, and under his rule, many former convicts went on to become successful administrators, land owners and business people.

However, the governor's ambitions for the colony (which he lobbied to have renamed 'Australia') brought him into conflict with the continent's original landowners, and he was responsible for the deaths of Aboriginal men, women and children, brutally killed in a military operation intended to create terror among local Indigenous people.

So, was Macquarie the man who sowed the seeds of a great nation, or a tyrant who destroyed Aboriginal resistance?

In this, the most comprehensive biography yet of this fascinating colonial governor, acclaimed biographer Grantlee Kieza draws on Macquarie's rich and detailed journals. He chronicles the life and times of a poor Scottish farm boy who joined the British army to make his fortune, saw wars on five continents and clawed his way to the top. Ultimately, Macquarie laid the foundations for a new nation, but, in the process, he played a part in the dispossession of the continent's original people.

Lover, fighter, egalitarian, autocrat - Lachlan Macquarie is a complex and engaging character who first envisaged the nation we call Australia. (publisher blurb)

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