Title Convincing ground : learning to fall in love with your country / Bruce Pascoe

Published Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 302 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : color illustrations, 1 map, 1 portrait Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Franks is Dead; 2. History, How it Starts; 3. The Lakes; 4. Lady Macbeth's Clean Hands; 5. The Lie of the Land; 6. The Psychology of the Frontier; 7. Brave Explorers; 8. Lake Corangamite; 9. The Raised Sword; 10. The Raised Sword; 11. The Great Australian Face; 12. Golden Boy; 13. Don't Mention the War; 14. Don't Mention the War; 15. The Language of Resistance; 16. Native Born; 17. True Hunter; 18. Germaine to the Problem; 19. The Whispering Land; 20. Elbows on the Bar; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Convincing Ground is a wide-ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- History Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity. HISTORY. Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of Colonization Race relations Ethnische Beziehungen Ethnische Identität SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations -- History Australia -- Colonization -- History Subject Australia Australien Aborigines. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780855756949 0855756942

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