03088nam 2200577 a 450 991054395980332120210518020425.00-85575-694-2(CKB)2550000001134645(OCoLC)671655666(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424576(MiAaPQ)EBC838262(MiAaPQ)EBC583541(Au-PeEL)EBL838262(CaPaEBR)ebr10424576(Au-PeEL)EBL583541(OCoLC)669127079(EXLCZ)99255000000113464520070608d2007 ua 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConvincing ground[electronic resource] learning to fall in love with your country /Bruce Pascoe1st ed.Canberra Aboriginal Studies Press20071 online resource (313 p.)0-85575-549-0 1-306-03102-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- One Franks is Dead -- Two History, How it Starts -- Three The Lakes -- Four Lady Macbeth's Clean Hands -- Five The Lie of the Land -- Six The Psychology of the Frontier -- Seven Brave Explorers -- Eight Lake Corangamite -- Nine The Raised Sword -- Ten The Great Australian Forge -- Eleven The Great Australian Face -- Twelve Golden Boy -- Thirteen Don't Mention the War -- Fourteen The Language of War -- Fifteen The Language of Resistance -- Sixteen Native Born -- Seventeen True Hunter -- Eighteen Germaine to the Problem -- Nineteen The Whispering Land -- Twenty Elbows on the Bar -- Appendices -- I. Wathaurong Language Sample -- II. Place names of the Geelong-Ballarat Region -- III. Jillong Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts and local histories -- Major references -- Index.Convincing ground is a wide-ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community.Pascoe ranges across the national contemporary political stage, critiquing the great Australian silence when it comes to dealing respectfully with the construction of the nation's Indigenous past.Aboriginal Australians, Treatment ofHistoryAboriginal AustraliansGovernment relationsHistoryAboriginal AustraliansEthnic identityAustraliaRace relationsHistoryAustraliaColonizationHistoryElectronic books.Aboriginal Australians, Treatment ofHistory.Aboriginal AustraliansGovernment relationsHistory.Aboriginal AustraliansEthnic identity.994.0049915Pascoe Bruce1947-1043340MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910543959803321Convincing ground2750815UNINA