Overview

Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land - and more people - was conquered than in the preceding fifty. In 1835 James Boyce brings this pivotal moment to life. He traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, and describes the key personalities of Melbourne's early days. He conjures up the Australian frontier - its complexity, its rawness and the way its legacy is still with us today. And he asks the poignant question largely ignored for 175 years- could it have been different? With his first book, Van Diemen's Land, Boyce introduced an utterly fresh approach to the nation's history. 'In re-imagining Australia's past,' Richard Flanagan wrote, 'it invents a new future.' 1835 continues this untold story. 'Anyone who calls Melbourne home - in fact anyone who calls Australia home - should read this book.' -Peter Mares 'A first-class piece of historical writing. Boyce is a graceful and robust stylist and a fine storyteller.' -Sunday Age 'Revisionist ... unequivocal ... sobering' -Malcolm Turnbull

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'Brilliantly researched and elegantly presented ... Boyce has given us a remarkable insight into the way the land that was used by Indigenous peoples became reinscribed as white property, and how the authorities would use force to defend it as such.' -Arena 'These qualities [too numerous to list here] combine not only to make 1835 an important history, but also to confirm Boyce as an important voice in Australian history.' -Australian Historical Studies 'Boyce continually reminds us of the tragic social and humanitarian consequences of expanding white settlement for the continent's original inhabitants.' -Sun Herald '1835 is the best book on Australian history I have read since Van Diemen's Land. James Boyce is on a roll.' -Good Reading 'Anyone who calls Melbourne home - in fact anyone who calls Australia home - should read this book.' -Peter Mares 'A first-class piece of historical writing. Boyce is a graceful and robust stylist and a fine storyteller.' -Sunday Age 'An eloquent and thought-provoking book.' -Australian Book Review 'A compelling work.' -Melbourne Historical Journal 'Revisionist ... unequivocal ... sobering' -Malcolm Turnbull

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James Boyce is a multi-award-winning historian. His first book, Van Diemen's Land, was described by Richard Flanagan as 'the most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore'. He is also the editor of Inga Clendinnen and the author of Losing Streak, Born Bad, Imperial Mud and 1835, which was The Age's 2012 Book of the Year.

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