By Emeritus Professor Grace Elizabeth Karskens

Books

Karskens GE, 2009, The Colony: A history of early Sydney, Allen & Unwin, Sydney

Karskens GE, 1999, Inside the Rocks: the archaeology of a neighbourhood,, Hale and Iremonger Publishers, Sydney

Karskens G, 1991, Holroyd A Social History of Western Sydney, UNSW Press

Karskens GE, 1988, Cox's Way: An Historical and Archaeological Study of Cox's Road and Early Crossings of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 1, Lands Department of New South Wales, Sydney

Book Chapters

Stockton E; Karskens G; Jackson M, 2019, ''Yellomundee: A Human Landscape'', in Knox K; Stockton E (ed.), Aboriginal Heritage of the Blue Mountains: Recent Research and Reflections, Blue Mountain Education and Research Trust, Lawson NSW, pp. 33 - 44

Karskens G, 2017, '‘On the Rocks – A Brief History’', in Dunn, J; Peake B; Piscopo A (ed.), Sirius, Piper Press, Sydney, pp. 10 - 11

Karskens GE, 2013, 'The early colonial presence 1788-1822', in Bashford A; Macintyre S (ed.), The Cambridge History of Australia. Volume 1 : Indigenous and Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 91 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cho9781107445758.008

Karskens GE, 2012, 'Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupation in Early New South Wales, Australia', in Shammas C (ed.), Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment: Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, pp. 325 - 357

Karskens GE, 2010, 'Introduction', in Ashton P; Butler Bowden C; Cossu A; Johnson W (ed.), Painting the Rocks: The Loss of Old Sydney, edn. first, HIstoric Houses Trust of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 11 - 13

Karskens GE, 2006, 'Making City Lives: Urban Achaeology and Australian Social, Cultural and Urban history', in Green A; Leech R (ed.), Cities in the World 1500-2000, edn. 1, Maney, UK, pp. 269 - 281

Karskens GE, 2003, 'The archaeology of cities: what is it we want to know?', in Murray T (ed.), Exploring the modern city: recent approaches to urban history and archaeology, edn. First, Historic Houses Trust (NSW), Sydney, pp. 87 - 111

Karskens GE, 2001, 'Small things, big pictures: new perspectives from the archaeology of Sydney`s rocks neighbourhood', in Mayne A; Murray T (ed.), The archaeology of urban landscapes: explorations in slumland, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 69 - 85

Karskens GE, 1998, 'Sydney', in Davison G; Hirst J; Macintyre S (ed.), Oxford Companion to Australian History, edn. 1, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 623 - 624

Karskens GE, 1998, ''The Great North Road: Historical Overview Convict Trail Project, 1998, 6-28', in Banks L (ed.), Exploring the Great North Road: 1998 Forum Papers, edn. 1, Convict Trail Project Inc, Sydney, pp. 6 - 28

Karskens GE, 1992, 'Spinning Yarns: An Oral History of Working Life at Bonds Cotton Spinning Mill, Pendle Hill, 1923-1988', in Shields J (ed.), All Our Labours: Oral Histories of Working Life in Twentieth Century Sydney, edn. 1, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 10 - 46

Karskens GE, 1989, 'The House on the Hill: The State Conservatorium and `First Class Music' in New South Wales', in Coltheart L (ed.), Significant Sites: History and public works in New South Wales, edn. 1, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, pp. 121 - 141

Karskens GE, 1987, 'Between City and Country: 1920s Concord', in Kelly M (ed.), Sydney: City of Suburbs, edn. 1, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 125 - 148

Edited Books

Karskens GE; Rogowsky M, (ed.), 2004, Histories of Green Square, Sydney City Council and School of History, UNSW, Sydney, http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/120281/histories-of-Green-Square.pdf

Journal articles

Karskens G, 2022, 'Nourishing terrain: Gardens and the colonisation of Australia', Australian Garden History, 33, pp. 4 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3316/informit.224503003126370

Karskens G; Ross S; Burnett G, 2019, '‘Traces in a Lost Landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites – Nepean River and contiguous areas NSW'', Internet Archaeology, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.52.8

Karskens G; McKenna M, 2019, 'Nah Doongh's Song: Grace Karskens and Mark McKenna in conversation', Aboriginal History, 43, pp. 57 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AH.43.2019.03

Parkes R; Ross S; Sobotkova A; Evans T; Crook P; Lupack S; Karskens G; Leslie F; Merson J, 2018, '‘Ruined Castle Shale Mining Settlement, Katoomba NSW: Report on a Pilot Survey’', Australasian historical archaeology : journal of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, 36, pp. 86 - 92

Karskens G, 2018, 'Correspondence, Mark McKenna’s, ‘Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future’', Quarterly Essay, pp. 112 - 114

Karskens GE, 2018, 'Fire in the forests? Exploring the human-ecological history of Australia’s first frontier', Environment and History, 25, pp. 391 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734018X15254461646378

Karskens G, 2017, 'Phillip and the Eora: Governing race relations in the colony of New South Wales', Sydney Journal, 5, pp. 39 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/sj.v5i1.5728

Karskens GE, 2017, 'Phillip and the Eora: Governing race in New South Wales', The Sydney Journal, 5, pp. 39 - 55, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/sydney_journal/issue/view/419/showToc

Karskens GE, 2017, 'Review of Liz Connor, Skin Deep: settler impressions of Aboriginal women’', The American Historical Review, 122, pp. 1597 - 1598, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.5.1597

Karskens GE, 2016, 'Floods and Flood-mindedness in Early Colonial Australia', Environmental History, 21, pp. 315 - 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emv186

Karskens GE, 2015, 'The Governor and his convict architect: Alisdair McGregor’s A forger’s progress and Luke Slattery’s The First Dismissal', Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-governor-and-his-convict-architect-20150124-12wkbq.html

Karskens GE, 2014, 'The Blue Mountains Crossings: New Histories from the Old Legends', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 16, pp. 197 - 225, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=449772476836297;res=IELHSS

Gentry K; Fullagar K; Leppard-Quinn C; Karskens G; Akeroyd C, 2014, 'Exhibition Reviews', History Australia, 11, pp. 240 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2014.11668524

Gentry K; Fullager K; Leppard-Quinn C; Karskens G; Akeroyd C, 2014, 'Exhibition Reviews: A spectre haunting William Street: Nicole Foreshew, born in darkness before dawn.', History Australia, 11, pp. 240 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2014.11668524

Karskens GE, 2013, 'The settler evolution: space, place and memory in early colonial Australia', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 13, pp. 1 - 21, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/index

Karskens GE, 2013, 'All that is Solid: Castlereagh 1999', RCC Perspectives, pp. 9 - 12, http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/publications/perspectives_mainpage/2013_perspectives/index.html

Karskens GE, 2013, 'Seeking Sydney from the ground up: foundations and horizons in Sydney's history', Sydney Journal, 4, pp. 180 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/sj.v4i1.3795

Karskens GE, 2011, 'Review of Alan Frost, Botany Bay: The Real Story, in Sydney Morning Herald, 19-20 February, 2011', Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/botany-bay-the-real-story-20110222-1b3n3.html

Karskens GE, 2011, 'What is a gentleman to do? Penny Russell’s Savage or Civilised? and Lucy Sussex’s, Saltwater in the Ink', Australian Literary Review

Karskens GE, 2011, '‘Red coats, blue jackets, black skin: Aboriginal men and clothing in the early colonial New South Wales’', Aboriginal History, 35, pp. 1 - 36

Karskens GE, 2011, 'Archival Riches: Review of Anna Johnston, The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture and Power in Colonial New South Wales', Australian Book Review, pp. 67 - 68, https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/about/59-october-2011/541-anna-johnston-the-paper-war?tmpl=component&print=1

Karskens GE, 2010, 'Barangaroo, a woman worth remembering', Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/barangaroo-a-woman-worth-remembering-20100305-pot6.html

Karskens GE; Waterhouse R, 2010, ''Too sacred to be taken away': Property, Liberty, Tyranny and the 'Rum Rebellion'', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 12, pp. 1 - 22

Karskens GE, 2010, 'Review of Craig Wilcox, Red Coat Dreaming: How colonial Australia embraced the British Army', ReCollections (Canberra), 5, http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_5_no_2/book_reviews/red_coat_dreaming

Karskens GE, 2010, 'Review of Tiffany Shellam, Shaking hands on the fringes', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 96, pp. 103 - 105, http://web.b.ebscohost.com.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=7d9fc9f0-3ee7-4087-890d-5f18cdfdfc31@sessionmgr105&hid=125&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=51203317

Karskens G, 2009, 'The melbourne story', ReCollections, 4

Karskens GE, 2009, 'The Rocks', The Sydney Journal, 2, pp. 117 - 123

Karskens GE, 2009, 'Review of ‘The Melbourne Story’ exhibition, Museum of Victoria', ReCollections (Canberra), 4, http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_4_no_2/exhibition_reviews/the_melbourne_story/

Brown S; Dovers S; Frawley J; Gaynor A; Goodall H; Karskens G; Mullins S, 2008, 'Can Environmental History Save the World?', History Australia, 5, pp. 03.1 - 03.24, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha080003

Karskens GE; Gaynor A; Dovers S; Mullins S; Brown S; Goodall H; Frawley J, 2008, 'Can Environmental History Save the World?', History Australia, 5, pp. 1 - 24

Karskens GE, 2008, 'Review of Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Closing Hell’s Gates: The Death of a Convict Station', Tasmanian Historical Studies, 13, pp. 155 - 156

Karskens GE, 2007, 'Water dreams, earthen histories: Exploring urban environmental history at the Penrith Lakes Scheme and Castlereagh, Sydney', Environment and History, 13, pp. 115 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734007780473555

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