Camden
ISBN: 9780195549515
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Oxford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Australasian/ Oceanian;

The village of Camden's place in Australia's history is bound up with the Macarthur family, the preeminent family in early colonial New South Wales. Although the Macarthurs are central to this study of Camden, Atkinson also focuses on the people they settled on the land as tenant farmers, and the laborers and trades-people who came to live after the village was laid out in 1841. He discusses their images of themselves, their religious faith, and their relationship with the land, with each other, with their landlords, and with nearby Sydney.

Alan Atkinson is an Australian historian who won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for the third volume of The Europeans in Australia. This is the most valuable single literary prize in the country. It is the culmination of the annual Victorian Premier's Awards, with each winner of the five $25,000 categories eligible for the big one. This final installmnet of Atkinson's in this series covers the period from the 1870's to the aftermath of World War I. He also won the Ernest Scott Prize 2015 with this title. This title also won a NSW Premier History Award 2015 in the Australian History category which carries a monetary prize of $15,000. It also made the shortlist for the Colin Roderick Award 2015. This title also made the shortlist for the 2015 Australia Book Prize presented by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Atkinson has won the 2015 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is presented annually to an Australian writer whose nonfiction book published in 2014 'contributed most to Australian cultural and intellectual life'.

(Bowker Author Biography)


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