SUPERIOR FINE COPY First Edition. In addition, the SBS DVD ($39.95 rrp).
“A landmark history of Indigenous Australia which accompanies a major nine part Australian television series. It combines the most rigorous academic research with captivating contemporary storytelling. Richly illustrated book that includes images of the landscape, evocative nineteenth-century photography and Aboriginal art. Written by Australia’s leading Indigenous historian and public intellectuals”
The dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Seven of Australia’s leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals – both black and white – caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia’s most transformative period in history. Based on the SBS-TV award-winning series. (The scarce lavish first edition. This is number 112 in the second series of the Miegunyah Press.).xxix, 393 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 29 x 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-385) and index. #260422
Accompanies a major nine-part television series broadcast on SBS. (included!)
Aboriginal Australians — History — Pictorial works. | Settlement and contacts – Government settlements, reserves. | Child welfare – Child / parent separation – Stolen generations. | Politics and Government – Political action – Non-Indigenous. | Politics and Government – Political action. | Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota people (D2) (NSW SI55-13) | Wiradjuri people (D10) (NSW SI55-07) | Colonisation. | Race relations – Violent. | Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02) | History. | Kulin people (S21.1) (Vic SI54, SJ54) | Ceremonies – Initiation. | Tasmania (Tas) | Moore River (SW WA SH50-14) | Ntaria / Hermannsburg (South Central NT SF53-13) | Wybalenna (Flinders Island Tas SK55-02) | Victoria (Vic) | Healesville / Coranderrk (E Vic Yarra Valley SJ55-06) | Truwana / Cape Barren Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02) | New South Wales (NSW) | Western Australia (WA) | Queensland (Qld) | Oyster Cove (SE Tas SK55-08)
Perkins, Rachel | Langton, Marcia, 1951- | Atkinson, Wayne | SBS TV