Assorted References

• association with Terry
  • InSamuel Terry
• education
  • Ineducation: Australia
• lottery
  • Inlottery: Distribution of modern lotteries
• tornadoes
  • Intornado: Global occurrence

history

• Australia floods of 2010–2011
  • InAustralia floods of 2010–11: Flooding in other states
• Australian gold rushes
  • InAustralian gold rushes
• colonial development
  • InAustralia: Settlement
  • InAustralia: New South Wales
• New South Wales Corps
  • InNew South Wales Corps
• Phillip’s settlement
  • InArthur Phillip

Geography

The best source for facts and statistics on the state is theNew South Wales Year Book (biennial) and other series available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Physical geography is covered inD.N. Jeans,An Historical Geography of New South Wales (1972); andIan G. Percival,The Geological Heritage of New South Wales (1985). Pioneering environmental histories includeEric Rolls,A Million Wild Acres: 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest (1984);Bill Gammage,Narrandera Shire (1986); andGeorge Seddon,Searching for the Snowy: An Environmental History (1994). Good general guidebooks areJustine Vaisutis,New South Wales, 5th ed. (2007), andSydney & New South Wales, 5th ed. (2007). The capital and its history are treated inAlan Birch andDavid S. Macmillan (eds.),The Sydney Scene, 1788–1960 (1962, reissued 1982);Jill Roe (ed.),Twentieth Century Sydney: Studies in Urban & Social History (1980);Peter Spearritt,Sydney’s Century: A History (2000); andJohn Connell (ed.),Sydney: The Emergence of a World City (2000).Geoffrey Dutton,The Innovators: The Sydney Alternatives in the Rise of Modern Art, Literature, and Ideas (1986), offers an engaging cultural survey of 20th-century Sydney.Delia Falconer,Sydney (2010), provides a personal evocation of the city.Bridget Griffen-Foley,The House of Packer: The Making of a Media Empire (1999), offers insight into one of the leading historical forces in New South Wales’s media culture.

History

General historical works includeAlan Atkinson,The Europeans in Australia: A History (1988);Brian Fletcher,Colonial Australia Before 1850 (1976);Jim Hagan andKen Turner,A History of the Labour Party in New South Wales 1891–1991 (1991);J.B. Hirst,Convict Society and Its Enemies: A History of Early New South Wales (1983); andThe Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy (1988). An excellent concise social history isBeverley Kingston,A History of New South Wales (2006). Biographical studies that illuminate various eras of New South Wales’s history includeD.W.A. Baker,Days of Wrath: The Life of John Dunmore Lang (1983);Christopher Cunneen,William John McKell (2000);A.W. Martin,Henry Parkes (1980); andJohn Ritchie,Lachlan Macquarie: A Biography (1986). Aboriginal issues are covered inHeather Goodall,From Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales 1770–1972 (1996);Peter Read,The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal Children in New South Wales 1883–1969 (1996); andNigel Parbury,Survival: A History of Aboriginal Life in New South Wales, rev., expanded, and updated ed. (2005).