The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. Describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.
The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. Describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.
The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between Indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history. Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, the book describ…
The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. Describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.
"Long before the word 'genocide' was coined, the British invasion of Australia had annihilated approximately nine-tenths of the continent's original population of Aborigines. The creation of white Australia depended upon the legal fiction of 'terra nullius'--no man's land--the c…
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to…
"Presents the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which sickness is invoked to construct, manage, and challenge race rel…
"Presents the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which sickness is invoked to construct, manage, and challenge race rel…
Frontispiece 'Roads meeting' by Kimberley artist Rover Thomas.
In Paddy's Road Kevin Keeffe brings us stories of Dodson's life, and those of his family, woven from interviews, government archives and family stories. Keeffe brings to life the political, cultural and spiritual beliefs of this remarkable Australian, a land rights activist, Roy…
Tells the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines's League, and their campaign for Aboriginal people's rights. Through petitions to government, letters to other campaigners and organisations, Thinking Black reveals their passionate struggle against dispossession and displa…
Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, s…