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Author Reynolds, Henry, 1938- author

Title Fate of a free people / Henry Reynolds
Published Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin Books, 2004
Ringwood, Victoria : Penguin Books Australia, 1995
©1995

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Description xii, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Series New Items
Contents 1. The free Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land -- 2. Defending ourselves -- 3. Those days of terro -- 4. A war of the most dreadful king -- 5. An agreement with the Old Governor -- 6. Why do you make us work like pisoners? -- 7. The sense of injustice
Summary History of conflict between Tasmanian settlers and Aborigines leading to Black War and Black Line; examples of diplomacy, negotiation and attempts to share land; Robinsons expeditions led to transfers to Wybalenna, Flinders Island; petition against reappointment of commandant in 1846 by Aboriginal exiles demanding their rights
Analysis Aborigines
History, 1801-1900
Land settlement
Tasmania
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
RB copy donated by Jack Horner; signed by the author
Signed by author 1 copy. ANU
Subject Robinson, George Augustus, -1866.
Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Government relations
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Tasmania.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Wars.
Aboriginal Tasmanians, Treatment of -- History
Aboriginal Tasmanians, Treatment of
Aboriginal Tasmanians,Treatment of -- History
Aboriginal Tasmanians.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Warfare.
Land settlement -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History.
SUBJECT Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
United Kingdom -- Colonies -- Administration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056633
United Kingdom -- Colonies -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056653
Tasmania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479
Tasmania -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004486
Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
LC no. 95145450
ISBN 0140243224 (paperback)
9780140243222 (paperback)
(paperback)
Other Titles Fate of a free people : A radical re-examination of the Tasmanian Wars