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A History of Tasmania by Henry Reynolds
Category: History
This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of both Indigenous Tasmanians and British settlers, author Henry Reynolds provides an original and engaging exp ...Show more
Black War - Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania by Nicholas Clements; Henry Reynolds (Foreword by)
Category: Australian History
Between 1825 and 1831 close to 200 Britons and 1000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black War. It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia’s history, yet many Australians know little about it. The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly at the ...Show more
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Henry Reynolds
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Raised by missionaries, Jimmie Blacksmith, a young half-castle Aboriginal man, is poignantly caught between the ways of his black forefathers and those of the white society to which he aspires. Exploited by his boss and betrayed by his [white] wife, he declares war on his white employers and goes on a v ...Show more
Dispossession - Black Australians and White Invaders (POD) by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
A fascinating collection of documents revealing in their own words how white Australians regarded Aboriginal people in the two centuries since white colonisation led to black dispossession.
Drawing The Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds
Category: Australian History
This is a pioneering account of the transnation production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable for both its international breadth and for its sensitivity to a local particularity, it is a model for the new global history. A powerful and sobering history, ...Show more
Forgotten War by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australian History
Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas, but there are no official commemorations of the battles fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists. Delving into why it is more controversial to talk about the frontier war now than it was 100 years ago, Fo ...Show more
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
Category: History
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more
North Of Capricorn: The Untold Story Of The People Of Australia's North by Reynolds Henry
Category: Fiction
North of Capricorn : The Untold Story of Australia's North by HENRY REYNOLDS
Category: Fiction