Aboriginal Australians A History Since 1788

by Broome, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781742370514
• ISBN10: 1742370519
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians - those who lost most in the early colonial era. Surveying two centuries of Aboriginal/European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology and, of course, violence. He also tells the story of Aboriginal survival and traces the continuing struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in modern Australia. Since its first edition in 1982, Broome's Aboriginal Australians has won acclaim as the classic account of race relations in Australia. This fully rewritten fourth edition continues the story, covering the uneven implementation of native title, the plight of remote Aboriginal communities, the 'Intervention' and the landmark apology to the 'stolen generations' and more.

Author Biography

Richard Broome is Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University. One of Australia's most respected scholars of Aboriginal history, he is also author of the prize-winning Aboriginal Victorians.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Prologue: Endings and beginnings	p. 1
Reflections on a Great Tradition	p. 5
The Eora confront the British	p. 15
Resisting the invaders	p. 36
Cultural resistance amid destruction	p. 57
Radical hope quashed	p. 81
The age of race and northern frontiers	p. 100
Working with cattle	p. 122
Mixed missionary blessings	p. 149
Controlled by boards and caste barriers	p. 172
Fighting for civil rights	p. 195
Struggling for Indigenous rights	p. 227
Hoping for equality	p. 255
Under siege	p. 283
Crisis, intervention and apology	p. 320
Notes	p. 351
Select bibliography	p. 385
Index	p. 390
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