THE ABORIGINAL TASMANIANS. - Softcover

Lyndall Ryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702219037 ISBN 13: 9780702219030

Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 1983

Synopsis

The extinction of the Tasmanian Aborigines has long been viewed as one of the great tragedies resulting from the British occupation of Tasmania. This book demonstrates that the Aborigines in Tasmania, although dispossessed, did not die out then or at any other period in Tasmania's history. In examining the myth created by nineteenth-century historians and scientists that Aborigines could not survive invasion, Lyndall Ryan investigates the nature of that invasion, Aboriginal resistance, and white Tasmanian policies towards the Aborigines after dispossession. The Aboriginal Tasmanians traces the emergence of a new Aboriginal community outside the boundaries of white society yet denied Aboriginal identity. In this new edition, Lyndall Ryan explores the fortunes of the present-day community in their quest for land and social justice. Tasmania was the cradle of race relations in Australia in the nineteenth century. It retains this position in the 1990s. In telling the story of the Aboriginal Tasmanians' struggles for a place in their own country, Lyndall Ryan provides special insights into the past and present of Aboriginal people nation-wide.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702219037
• ISBN 13: 9780702219030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336