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Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788

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A powerful history of black and white encounters in Australia since colonization, this fully up to date edition remains the one concise survey of Aboriginal history since 1788

 
In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it used to be with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the perspective of the original Australians: folks who lost most within the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers continuously supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology, and violence. He also tells the tale of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation, and traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to transport from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in up to date. Since its first edition in 1982, Broome’s Aboriginal Australians has won acclaim as a classic account of race relations in Australia. This fully rewritten fourth edition continues the tale, covering the uneven implementation of native title, the plight of remote Aboriginal communities, the “Intervention,” and the landmark apology to the “stolen generations” by Federal Parliament.
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