02964nam 2200589 450 991078741250332120230807213657.01-74224-715-61-74224-189-1(CKB)3710000000358958(EBL)1963356(SSID)ssj0001472674(PQKBManifestationID)11964511(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001472674(PQKBWorkID)11452346(PQKB)10622122(MiAaPQ)EBC1963356(Au-PeEL)EBL1963356(CaPaEBR)ebr11026143(OCoLC)904209883(EXLCZ)99371000000035895820150311h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVan Diemen's land an Aboriginal history /Murray Johnson, Ian McFarlaneSydney, Australia :UNSW Press,2015.©20151 online resource (472 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-74223-421-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 1912-197014. THE RESURGENCE OF TASMANIAN ABORIGINALITYCONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEXThe 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 AboriAboriginal AustraliansAustraliaTasmaniaHistoryAboriginal TasmaniansHistoryTasmaniaHistoryAboriginal AustraliansHistory.Aboriginal TasmaniansHistory.301.2994Johnson Murray1488621McFarlane IanMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787412503321Van Diemen's land3708901UNINA