Cover page; title page; copyright page; contents; preface; prologue: endings and beginnings; 1 reflections on a great tradition; 2 the eora confront the british; 3 resisting the invaders; 4 cultural resistance amid destruction; 5 radical hope quashed; 6 the age of race and northern frontiers; 7 working with cattle; 8 mixed missionary blessings; 9 controlled by boards and caste barriers; 10 fighting for civil rights; 11 struggling for indigenous rights; 12 hoping for equality; 13 under siege; 14 crisis, intervention and apology; notes; select bibliography
Summary
A powerful history of black and white encounters in Australia since colonization, this fully updated edition remains the only concise survey of Aboriginal history since 1788 In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he sho
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-389) and index
