Whitewash : On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History

by Manne, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780975076903
• ISBN10: 0975076906
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Black Inc

Summary

An important reply to Keith Windschuttle's, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One. Whitewash provides not only a demolition of Windschuttle's revisionism but also a vivid and illuminating history of one of the most famous and tragic episodes in the history of the British empire - the dispossession of the Tasmanian Aborigines. Contributors include: Henry Reynolds, Cassandra Pybus, Lyndall Ryan and Martin Krygier.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Overview
Fantasy Island	p. 17
In General
The Character of the Nation	p. 81
Terra Nullius Reborn	p. 109
Re-inventing Social Evolution	p. 139
History and the Nation	p. 160
Telling Us True	p. 174
In Particular
Windschuttle's Debut	p. 187
Mistake Creek	p. 199
Statement of Peggy Patrick	p. 215
Risdon Cove	p. 218
John Glover's Mount Wellington	p. 225
Who Is the Fabricator?	p. 230
Robinson and Robertson	p. 258
Cape Grim	p. 277
Counting the Cost of the 'Nun's Picnic'	p. 299
Archaeology and History	p. 311
In Conclusion
Revisionism and Denial	p. 337
Acknowledgements & Notes on Contributors	p. 371
Index	p. 375
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