Description |
xv, 284 pages : illustrations, forms, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Perspectives of the past / Isabel McBryde -- Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives / Henrietta Fourmile -- Inventing Aborigines / Bob Reece -- Exchange in southeastern Australia: an enthnohistorical perspective / Isabel McBryde -- Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape / Philip Clarke -- The struggle for recognition: part-Aboriginals in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century / Lyndall Ryan -- Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history / Richard Baker -- Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in southeastern Australial, 1860-1914 / Heather Goodall -- 'A rape of the soul so profound': some recollections of on the dispersal policy in New South Wales / Peter Read -- Growing up in Queensland / Bowman Johnson talks to Andrew Markus -- Resettlement and caring for the community: the Anmatyerra experience / Elspeth Young -- The Aboriginal Embassy: an account of the protests of 1972 / Scott Robinson |
Summary |
Collection of articles from the journal Aboriginal History designed to introduce a wider readership to the journals contribution to the knowledge of the history of Australian Aboriginal people; eleven papers chosen which; present materials not widely known, include Aboriginal peoples accounts of their experiences, deal with events in widely separated parts of the continent and together present a progression in time through two hundred years since European invasion; papers by Richard Baker, Philip Clarke, Henrietta Fourmile, Heather Goodall, Bowman Johnson, Isabel McBryde, Peter Read, Bob Reece, Scott Robinson, Lyndall Ryan and Elspeth Young are annotated separately |
Notes |
CIP confirmed |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Historiography.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Author |
Chapman, Valerie C
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Read, Peter, 1945-
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LC no. |
96201558 |
ISBN |
1863739645 (paperback) |
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