1st Edition
Terrible Hard Biscuits A reader in Aboriginal history
Edited By Valerie Chapman
Copyright 1996
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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'A fine beginning for those intent on understanding the colonial past that shaped black and white Australia.' - Richard Broome, author of Aboriginal Australians Terrible Hard Biscuits introduces the main themes in the history of Aboriginal Australia: the complexity of Aboriginal-European relations since 1788, how Aboriginal identity and cultures survived invasion, dispossession and... Read more
Figures and tables
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors' introduction
1 Perspectives of the past: an introduction - Isabel McBryde
2 Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives - Henrietta Fourmile
3 Inventing Aborigines - Bob Reece
4 Exchange in southeastern Australia: an ethnohistorical perspective - Isabel McBryde
5 Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape - Philip Clarke
6 The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century - Lyndall Ryan
7 Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history - Richard Baker
8 Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in southeastern Australia, 1860-1914 - Heather Goodall
9 'A rape of the soul so profound': some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales - Peter Read
10 Growing up in Queensland - Bowman Johnson talks to Andrew Markus
11 Resettlement and caring for the country: the Anmatyerre experience - Elspeth Young
12 The Aboriginal embassy: an account of the protests of 1972 - Scott Robinson
Endnotes
Index
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors' introduction
1 Perspectives of the past: an introduction - Isabel McBryde
2 Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives - Henrietta Fourmile
3 Inventing Aborigines - Bob Reece
4 Exchange in southeastern Australia: an ethnohistorical perspective - Isabel McBryde
5 Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape - Philip Clarke
6 The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century - Lyndall Ryan
7 Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history - Richard Baker
8 Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in southeastern Australia, 1860-1914 - Heather Goodall
9 'A rape of the soul so profound': some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales - Peter Read
10 Growing up in Queensland - Bowman Johnson talks to Andrew Markus
11 Resettlement and caring for the country: the Anmatyerre experience - Elspeth Young
12 The Aboriginal embassy: an account of the protests of 1972 - Scott Robinson
Endnotes
Index
Biography
Peter Read and Val Chapman lecture in History at the Australian National University.
