Synopses & Reviews
This provocative work grapples with some of the most difficult issues in Aboriginal history, showing how they raise fundamental concerns about the nature of historical knowledge, truth, and authority. Discussions of such controversial questions as
How many Aboriginal people were killed in frontier conflict and was it genocide? Was there ever a massacre at Risdon Cove in Tasmania? and
Does Aboriginal oral history count as real history? attempt to shed some light an Australia's historical make-up.
About the Author
Bain Attwood is associate professor of history at Monash University and a professorial fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at Australian National University. A leading authority on Aboriginal history, he is the author of numerous books, including
The Making of the Aborigines and
Rights for Aborigines.