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Van Diemen's Land : An Aboriginal History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (472 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781742247151
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Van Diemen's LandDDC classification:
  • 994.600499159
LOC classification:
  • DU470 .J384 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 ABORIGINALITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.
Summary: Carefully researched, using the findings of archaeologists and extensive documentary evidence, some only recently uncovered, this important book fills a long-time gap in Tasmanian history.
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Intro -- 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 ABORIGINALITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.

Carefully researched, using the findings of archaeologists and extensive documentary evidence, some only recently uncovered, this important book fills a long-time gap in Tasmanian history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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