| Description |
xxxii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The Aboriginal landscape -- European visitors, 1642-1802 -- European invaders (Sealers, 1800-1837 -- Convicts & agriculturists, 1803-20 -- Pastoralists, 1820-28) -- War in the settled districts : Eauropean & Aboriginal response -- Robinson the conciliator, 1828-30 -- From conciliator to captor -- The resistance of the Aborigines beyond the frontier, 1832-34 -- The reckoning -- Flinders Island, 1835-39 : false hopes broken promises -- Flinders Island, 1839-47 : a push for independence -- The fragments -- Emergence of a new Avoriginal community -- The Tasmanian Aborigines in the 20th century -- 1980 : the Tasmanian Aborigines have survived -- Heritage, land & sovereignty : the politics of Aboriginal identity in Tasmania, 1793-1992 -- Mabo & reconciliation : the new Aboriginal politics of the 1990s |
| Summary |
Comprehensive history from 1642 to present of social conditions in Tasmania and Bass Strait islands; includes prehistory, reconstruction of tribal territories and economies; emphasis on Cape Barren Island history, cultural survival; second edition has additional chapters on the political role of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre in return of human remains, control of sacred sites and land rights, and the Tasmanian government reaction to native title legislation |
| Analysis |
Aborigines |
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History |
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Tasmania |
| Notes |
First ed.: St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, 1981 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [328]-363 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Wars.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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| SUBJECT |
Tasmania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479
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Tasmania -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004486
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Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
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| LC no. |
96174090 |
| ISBN |
1863739653 (paperback) |
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