| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Prologue / Marcia Langton -- Ngura Barbagai: country lost / Marcia Langton -- Towlangany: to tell lies / James Boyce -- Wurrbunj Narrap: lament for country / Bruce Pascoe -- Altyere: dreaming / R.G. Kimber -- Marda-Marda: two bloods / Steve Kinnane -- Ngariarty: speaking strong / Wayne Atkinson -- Kara Ged: homeland / Marcia Langton and Noel Loos -- Epilogue / Marcia Langton |
| Summary |
This book is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals-both black and white-caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia |
| Notes |
Originally published in 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- History
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Aboriginal Australians
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Kolonisation
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Auswirkung
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Kulturkontakt
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Australien
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Aborigines.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perkins, Rachel, 1970- editor.
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Langton, Marcia, 1951- editor.
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| ISBN |
0522859542 |
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9780522859546 |
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