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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787412503321

Autore

Johnson Murray

Titolo

Van Diemen's land : an Aboriginal history / / Murray Johnson, Ian McFarlane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, Australia : , : UNSW Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-74224-715-6

1-74224-189-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Disciplina

301.2994

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Tasmania - History

Aboriginal Tasmanians - History

Tasmania History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1. ORIGINS ... IN FACT AND FICTION; 2. LIFE-WAYS AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF PRE-CONTACT VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; 3. FIRST ENCOUNTERS AND BRITISH COLONISATION; 4. RISDON COVE AND THE LONG MARCH TO WAR; 5. THE SEALING FRATERNITY AND THE 'BLACK WAR'; 6. THE 'BLACK LINE' AND 'FRIENDLY MISSION'; 7. THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER; 8. CAPTIVITY AND EXILE; 9. WYBALENNA; 10. THE PORT PHILLIP INTERLUDE (1839-1842); 11. THE TRAGEDY OF OYSTER COVE; 12. THE BASS STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITY   1850-1910; 13. THE BASS STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITY   1912-1970

14. THE RESURGENCE OF TASMANIAN ABORIGINALITYCONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-ranging book is a comprehensive and critical account of that epic survival up to the present day.Starting from antiquity, the book examines the devastating arrival of Europeans and



subsequent colonisation, warfare and exile. It emphasises the regionalism and separateness, a consistent feature of Abori