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Aboriginal Australians : black responses to white dominance, 1788-2001

Author: Richard Broome
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 3rd edView all editions and formats
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"This book tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians - those who lost most in our country's early colonial struggle for power. Surveying two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, it reveals what white Australia lost through unremitting colonial invasion and tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation. It traces the continuing Aboriginal  Read more...
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Broome
ISBN: 1865087556 9781865087559
OCLC Number: 49538836
Description: 330 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Traditional life --
The Gamaraigal confront the British --
Resisting the invaders --
Cultural resistance amidst destruction --
Stifling aboriginal initiative --
Racism enshrined --
Mixed missionary blessings --
Aborigines in the cattle industry --
Aborigines and the caste barrier --
Breaking down the barriers --
Towards self-determination --
Ambivalent times --
Aborigines under siege.
Responsibility: Richard Broome.

Abstract:

"This book tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians - those who lost most in our country's early colonial struggle for power. Surveying two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, it reveals what white Australia lost through unremitting colonial invasion and tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation. It traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of colonial society to a more central place in modern Australia." "Since its first appearance in 1982 and revision in 1994, Richard Broome's Aboriginal Australians has won a wide readership as a classic text on the history of race relations in Australia. Now fully updated to 2001, this new edition explains the land rights struggle since Mabo, the Hindmarsh Island affair, debates over the 'stolen generation', 'sorry' and reconciliation, and the recent experience of Aboriginal Australia. Aboriginal Australians remains the only concise and up-to-date survey of Aboriginal history since 1788."--BOOK JACKET.

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