Van Diemen's Land : an Aboriginal History.
The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This bro...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Sydney :
UNSW Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; introduction; 1. origins ... in fact and fiction; 2. life-ways and material culture of pre-contact van diemen's land; 3. first encounters and british colonisation; 4. risdon cove and the long march to war; 5. the sealing fraternity and the 'black war'; 6. the 'black line' and 'friendly mission'; 7. the north-west frontier; 8. captivity and exile; 9. wybalenna; 10. the port phillip interlude (1839-1842); 11. the tragedy of oyster cove; 12. the bass strait islander community 1850-1910; 13. the bass strait islander community 1912-1970.
- 14. the resurgence of tasmanian aboriginalityconclusion; notes; bibliography; acknowledgments; index.