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, Lands Department of New South Wales, Sydney

Book Chapters

Karskens G, 2024, 'Nah Doongh's Story', in Konishi S; Allbrook M; Griffiths T (ed.), Reframing Indigenous Biography, Routledge

Karskens G; Griffiths T, 2024, 'In Conversation: The Historical Imagination and Legacy of Eleanor Dark', in Morrison F; Rooney B (ed.), Time, Tide and HIstory: Eleanor Dark's Fiction, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 181 - 204

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, pp. 121 - 141

Karskens GE, 1987, 'Between City and Country: 1920s Concord', in Kelly M (ed.), Sydney: City of Suburbs, 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, 2024, 'Kurringy (c. 1798–c. 1870)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ADB19

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&db=30h

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

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