The Aboriginal Tasmanians
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few histories carry the moral weight and scholarly urgency of The Aboriginal Tasmanians, a landmark work that confronts one of the most devastating episodes of colonial violence in the modern world. Lyndall Ryan chronicles the history of Tasmania's Indigenous people from their ancient origins through their catastrophic encounter with British colonisation in the nineteenth century, detailing the systematic dispossession, conflict, and near-annihilation of a people who had inhabited the island for tens of thousands of years. With unflinching rigour, Ryan reconstructs the lives, culture, and resistance of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community, challenging the long-held colonial myth that they had simply and quietly died out. Ryan's work stands as a cornerstone of Australian Indigenous historiography, distinguished by its meticulous use of archival sources and its insistence on centring Aboriginal agency within a narrative long dominated by European perspectives. Her prose is at once authoritative and deeply humane, illuminating the resilience of a people who survived against all colonial expectations. A text that irrevocably changed the way Australia understands its own past, it leaves the reader asking a question that history itself demands we never stop confronting: what does survival truly cost, and who is made to pay?
Author: Lyndall Ryan
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few histories carry the moral weight and scholarly urgency of The Aboriginal Tasmanians, a landmark work that confronts one of the most devastating episodes of colonial violence in the modern world. Lyndall Ryan chronicles the history of Tasmania's Indigenous people from their ancient origins through their catastrophic encounter with British colonisation in the nineteenth century, detailing the systematic dispossession, conflict, and near-annihilation of a people who had inhabited the island for tens of thousands of years. With unflinching rigour, Ryan reconstructs the lives, culture, and resistance of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community, challenging the long-held colonial myth that they had simply and quietly died out. Ryan's work stands as a cornerstone of Australian Indigenous historiography, distinguished by its meticulous use of archival sources and its insistence on centring Aboriginal agency within a narrative long dominated by European perspectives. Her prose is at once authoritative and deeply humane, illuminating the resilience of a people who survived against all colonial expectations. A text that irrevocably changed the way Australia understands its own past, it leaves the reader asking a question that history itself demands we never stop confronting: what does survival truly cost, and who is made to pay?