John West (1809 1873) was an English-born minister who received a
Colonial Missionary Society post in Tasmania in 1838. West became
an outspoken opponent of the ongoing government policy of
transporting convicts from Britain to Tasmania. Around 1847 a
wealthy supporter approached West to write the colony's history,
although it had been a British territory only since 1803. West
accepted the task and, amid his campaigning and other
responsibilities, completed this two-volume work which was
published in 1852. It is divided between a straightforward
narrative of events and thematic issues such as the treatment of
the Aboriginal peoples and the issue of the convict transport
system. Volume 1 covers the development of the colony, starting
with the arrival of the Dutch in the seventeenth century, who named
the island Van Diemen's Land, through to British control and its
subsequent settlement as the colony of Tasmania.
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