Download or read book The Last Man written by Tom Lawson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide at the hands of the British is virtually forgotten today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider British society in this genocide. It positions the destruction as a consequence of British policy, and ideology in the region. Tom Lawson shows how Britain practised cultural destruction and then came to terms with and evaded its genocidal imperial past. Although the introduction of European diseases undoubtedly contributed to the decline in the indigenous population, Lawson shows that the British government supported what was effectively the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania - particularly in the period of martial law in 1828-1832. By 1835 the vast majority of the surviving indigenous community had been deported to Flinders Island, where the British government took a keen interest in the attempt to transform them into Christians and Englishmen in a campaign of cultural genocide. Lawson also illustrates the ways in which the destruction of indigenous Tasmanians was reflected in British culture - both at the time and since - and how it came to play a key part in forging particular versions of British imperial identity. Laments for the lost Tasmanians were a common theme in literary and museum culture, and the mistaken assumption that Tasmanians were doomed to complete extinction was an important part of the emerging science of human origins. By exploring the memory of destruction, The Last Man provides the first comprehensive picture of the British role in the destruction of the Tasmanian Aboriginal population.

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Download or read book Transgressions written by Ingereth Macfarlane and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral student in the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University, invited a group of early career scholars to meet in Canberra. They brought their diverse social science and humanities backgrounds to the uncovering of creative Indigenous responses to the colonial encounter in Australia, and fresh ways of writing about these. Their studies were focused in diverse parts of Australia and on different time periods, but shared a common interest in developing critical re-assessments of Australian colonial and anti-colonial histories. Their meeting encouraged face-to-face exchanges that could short-circuit the isolation often experienced by cross-disciplinary, original scholars. It also emphasised writerly aspects of creative thinking, promoting the portrayal of character, alternative prose styles and inventive narrative forms. The authors' responses to these invitations have flavoured the commissioned papers presented here. The critical and creative drives which inform them shines out in their writing. They are exciting and sometimes surprising in the angles they take, and the cross-overs of genre or subject that they offer."--Provided by publisher.

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Download or read book The Moving Frontier written by Peter Stanbury and published by Terrey Hills, N.S.W. : Reed. This book was released on 1977 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers by J.P. White, J. Woolmington, D.F. Branagan, A.M. McArthur, A.M. Moyle, A. Capell, T.J. Widders, D.C. Biernoff, M. Dallas, J.L. Clegg, B. Semler, L.J. Kramer and H.F.M. Creamer, separately annotated.

Download or read book Black Robinson written by Vivienne Rae-Ellis and published by Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press ; Portland, Or. : International Specialized Book Services. This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsympathetic account of George Augustus Robinson's life; details of 1830 military action that became known as the Black Line; conciliator with Tasmanian Aborigines as Friendly Mission; his relationship with Trucanini; establishment of Wybalenna mission; appointment as Chief Protector of Aborigines in Victoria; relations with Parker, Thomas and other Protectors; opinions of governors; allegations of dishonesty in Robinson's reports and official inquiries into his maladministration at Flinders Island and Victorian Protectorate; his support for Aborigines in legal matters; expeditions in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and southern New South Wales; detailed reporting on official documents and correspondence.

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