| Description |
472 p., [15] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
fabrication of Aboriginal history ; vol 1
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| Contents |
Introduction The final solution down under -- 1. The killing fields at Risdon Cove, May 1804 -- 2. The Black Legend in Van Diemen's Land, 1804-1831 -- 3. Black bushrangers and the outbreak of Aboriginal violence, 1823-1826 -- 4. The guerilla warfare thesis and the motives of the Aborigines, 1824-1831 -- 5. Historical scholarship and the invention of massacre stories, 1815-1830 -- 6. The Black Line and the intentions of the colonial authorities, 1830-1831 -- 7. Black Robinson and the origins of Aboriginal internment, 1829-1847 -- 8. Cape Grim and the credibility of The Conciliator, 1828-1834 -- 9. Settler opinion and the extirpation thesis, 1830-1831 -- 10. The death toll and the demise of the Aboriginal population, 1803-1834 -- 11. The historian as prophet and redeemer -- Epilogue Heritage, genealogy and black intellectual authoritarianism |
| Summary |
Controversial book that challenges current views about the impact of colonisation on Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples |
| Analysis |
Aborigines |
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Tasmania |
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Historiography |
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History, 1801-1900 |
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Key item |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. [437]-454 |
| Subject |
Aborigines, Tasmanian -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Historiography
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Historiography
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Historiography -- Australia
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History
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Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900.
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Race relations - Representation - History.
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Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850.
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Race relations - Violent - Genocide.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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Historiography.
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Geschichtsschreibung.
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Australia -- Historiography
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Tasmania -- Historiography
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Tasmania (Tas)
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Risdon Cove (SE Tas SK55-08)
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Cape Grim (NW Tas SK55-01)
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Australia.
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Tasmania.
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Tasmanien.
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Aborigines.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| ISBN |
1876492058 : |
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