Contested Places: Tasmania's Northern Districts from ancient times to 1900

by Shayne Breen

This is an online, digital version of the print edition of 2000, also published in Hobart. The book derives from a doctoral thesis. Breen begins by explaining three key terms - Place, Power and Social Law - within a context of 'environmental history', a paradigm which seeks to combine the three into something new.
Chapter headings are:
1. Dispossession
2. Property
3. Tenanted Estates
4. Agricultural Poverty
5. Farmers' Bad Habits
6. Hostile Workplaces
7. Policing Country Towns
8. Local Bodies
9. Nature's Bounties
Conclusion: Politics, Nature and Place

270 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Dr Shayne Breen has taught Tasmanian Aboriginal History at the University of Tasmania since 1990. He is the author of Contested Places: Tasmania’s Northern Districts from Ancient Times to 1900, published in 2001 by the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies in Hobart.

Reviews

[John Sheahan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Academic work presented in a most accessible way. Good work, Shayne. This really is a spiky place, this Tasmania, and I still love it.