With The White People
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
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With the White People stands as a landmark work in Australian colonial history, casting unflinching light on the Aboriginal men and women who worked, lived, and survived alongside European settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Henry Reynolds, one of Australia's most distinguished and provocative historians, chronicles the largely invisible labour and indispensable contributions of Indigenous Australians — as stockmen, domestic servants, guides, and intermediaries — whose roles were systematically erased from the dominant settler narrative. Drawing on diaries, letters, government records, and contemporary accounts, Reynolds reconstructs a world of complex cross-cultural encounter set against the vast and unforgiving landscapes of North Queensland and beyond. Reynolds argues with quiet but devastating authority that the foundational story of Australian settlement cannot be honestly told without acknowledging the Aboriginal presence at its very heart. His prose is precise and measured, yet charged with a moral urgency that transformed public discourse on race, identity, and historical memory in Australia. A pioneering work that refuses comfortable conclusions, With the White People leaves the reader confronting a question that still resonates deeply: what does it truly mean to share a land?
Author: Henry Reynolds
Format: Paperback
Published: 1990, Penguin Books
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
With the White People stands as a landmark work in Australian colonial history, casting unflinching light on the Aboriginal men and women who worked, lived, and survived alongside European settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Henry Reynolds, one of Australia's most distinguished and provocative historians, chronicles the largely invisible labour and indispensable contributions of Indigenous Australians — as stockmen, domestic servants, guides, and intermediaries — whose roles were systematically erased from the dominant settler narrative. Drawing on diaries, letters, government records, and contemporary accounts, Reynolds reconstructs a world of complex cross-cultural encounter set against the vast and unforgiving landscapes of North Queensland and beyond. Reynolds argues with quiet but devastating authority that the foundational story of Australian settlement cannot be honestly told without acknowledging the Aboriginal presence at its very heart. His prose is precise and measured, yet charged with a moral urgency that transformed public discourse on race, identity, and historical memory in Australia. A pioneering work that refuses comfortable conclusions, With the White People leaves the reader confronting a question that still resonates deeply: what does it truly mean to share a land?