Tasmanian Aborigines: A History Since 1803

by Lyndall Ryan

Tasmanian Aborigines were driven off their land so white settlers could produce fine wool for the English textile mills. By the time Truganini died in 1876, they were considered to be extinct--yet like so many other claims about them, this was wrong. Far from disappearing, the Tasmanian Aborigines actively resisted settler colonialism from the outset and have consistently campaigned for their rights and recognition as a distinct people through to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742370683
• ISBN13: 9781742370682
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"