First Australians : An Illustrated History
Carlton
:
Melbourne University Press
,
2008
Z1546617
2008
reference
single work
information book
(taught in 2 units)
'First Australians, the companion book to the epic SBS TV series, is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire.
'Through a vast collection of images and historic documents, 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 of history.
'Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia.
'By illuminating a handful of extraordinary lives spanning two centuries, First Australians reveals, through their eyes, the events that shaped a new nation.' (Publisher's blurb)
Aboriginal Australians : Black Response to White Dominance 1788-1980
Aboriginal Australians : A History Since 1788
George Allen and Unwin
,
1982
Z1575265
1982
single work
(taught in 12 units)
'This book tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians - those who lost most in our country's early colonial struggle for power. Surveying two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, it reveals what white Australia lost through unremitting colonial invasion and tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation. It traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of colonial society to a more central place in modern Australia.".
'Since its first appearance in 1982 and revision in 1994, Richard Broome's Aboriginal Australians has won a wide readership as a classic text on the history of race relations in Australia. Now fully updated to 2001, this new edition explains the land rights struggle since Mabo, the Hindmarsh Island affair, debates over the 'stolen generation', 'sorry' and reconciliation, and the recent experience of Aboriginal Australia. Aboriginal Australians remains the only concise and up-to-date survey of Aboriginal history since 1788.' (Taken from book jacket of 2002 edition.)
Attwood, B.. Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History. Allen & Unwin, 2005.
First Australians: The Untold Story of Australia (DVD). Madman Entertainment Pty Ltd, 2008.
Coombs, H.C.. Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Bourke, C., Bourke, E. and Edwards, B. (eds). Aboriginal Australia: An Introductory Reader in Aboriginal Studies. University of Queensland Press, 2003.
