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Aboriginal Victorians : a history since 1800 / Richard Broome.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2005.Edition: First editionDescription: 467 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1741145694 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 994.50049915 22
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 305.8991 BRO 1 Available T00419204
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians.

Includes index.

Bibliography.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface and Acknowledgements (p. xi)
  • Reflections (p. xvii)
  • 1 Meeting Strangers (p. 3)
  • 2 Melbourne-an Aboriginal Domain (p. 15)
  • 3 Countering Civilisers (p. 35)
  • 4 Accommodating Sheep Herders (p. 54)
  • 5 Dangerous Frontiers (p. 69)
  • 6 Negotiating Two Worlds (p. 97)
  • 7 New Communities (p. 119)
  • 8 Country 'Wanderers' (p. 146)
  • 9 A 'Miserable Spadeful of Ground' (p. 166)
  • 10 Under the Acts (p. 185)
  • 11 'Old Lake Tyers' (p. 217)
  • 12 Fighting for Framlingham (p. 235)
  • 13 Country Campers (p. 258)
  • 14 Melbourne and Aboriginal Activism (p. 286)
  • 15 Assimilation and Its Challengers (p. 312)
  • 16 Seeking Autonomy (p. 341)
  • 17 Being Aboriginal (p. 375)
  • Recommended Reading (p. 399)
  • Endnotes (p. 403)
  • Index (p. 459)

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