Black War: The Extermination Of The Tasmanian Aborigines
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; damaged cover, internally sound.
One of the darkest chapters in colonial history unfolds in Clive Turnbull's Black War: The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines — a searing, unflinching account of the systematic destruction of Tasmania's Indigenous population at the hands of British settlers in the nineteenth century. Turnbull chronicles the brutal conflict that raged across the Tasmanian frontier, detailing the dispossession, massacres, and forced removal that culminated in the near-total annihilation of one of the world's oldest surviving cultures, bringing to light a genocide that colonial authorities were eager to forget. A landmark work of Australian historical writing, Black War argues with moral clarity and meticulous research that the fate of the Tasmanian Aborigines was not an accident of history but the direct consequence of deliberate colonial policy. Turnbull's prose is precise and damning, presenting the evidence of institutional violence against a people who had inhabited their island home for tens of thousands of years. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the true human cost of empire — and the silences that still haunt the Australian national story.
Author: Clive Turnbull
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; damaged cover, internally sound.
One of the darkest chapters in colonial history unfolds in Clive Turnbull's Black War: The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines — a searing, unflinching account of the systematic destruction of Tasmania's Indigenous population at the hands of British settlers in the nineteenth century. Turnbull chronicles the brutal conflict that raged across the Tasmanian frontier, detailing the dispossession, massacres, and forced removal that culminated in the near-total annihilation of one of the world's oldest surviving cultures, bringing to light a genocide that colonial authorities were eager to forget. A landmark work of Australian historical writing, Black War argues with moral clarity and meticulous research that the fate of the Tasmanian Aborigines was not an accident of history but the direct consequence of deliberate colonial policy. Turnbull's prose is precise and damning, presenting the evidence of institutional violence against a people who had inhabited their island home for tens of thousands of years. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the true human cost of empire — and the silences that still haunt the Australian national story.