'Wild Colonial Greeks' reviewed by Yianni Cartledge, ‘Journal of Australian Colonial History’, UNE, vol. 23, 2021, pp 235-36.
'Wild Colonial Greeks' reviewed by Yianni Cartledge, ‘Journal of Australian Colonial History’, UNE, vol. 23, 2021, pp 235-36. BOOK REVIEWS 235 JACH Peter Prineas, Wild Colonial Greeks, Arcadia/Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020, pbk, ISBN 9781922454133, vii + 322 pp, $34.95. Australia's colonial period, lasting less than 115 years, was a turbulent, transitionary, and unsure time, where the lives of colonisers, convicts, First Nations people and immigrants intersected. Peter Prineas' book, Wild Colonial Greeks, explores this period through the lens of Australia's earliest Greek migrants, unravelling their stories and analysing their interactions with wider colonial Australia. Until this book, there have only been a handful of relevant studies on Greeks during this period, with few written in such an accessible and engaging manner. (Of note is Hugh Gilchrist, Australians and Greeks vol. 1: The Early Years, Sydney, 1992) This is due to scholars of Greek migration