Aboriginal History. Volume Three. Parts 1 -2
Author: Diane Barwick and Tom Stannage (Editors)
Binding: Paperback
Published: Aboriginal History, Dept of Pacific & Southeast Asian History, Canberra, 1979
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Edited by Diane Barwick and Tom Stannage, this two-part volume of Aboriginal History presents a rigorous and multidisciplinary examination of Indigenous experience, resistance, and representation in colonial and post-colonial Australia. Drawing from archival records, oral histories, and anthropological fieldwork, the collection documents frontier violence, mission policy, and the legal mechanisms that shaped Aboriginal lives. It argues for a critical reappraisal of settler narratives and foregrounds Indigenous agency in historical reconstruction. Part One addresses methodological challenges and historiographical tensions, while Part Two offers regional case studies that illustrate the diversity of Aboriginal responses to dispossession and control. The editors instruct scholars to confront the silences embedded in official records and to privilege Indigenous testimony as historical evidence. This volume stands as a foundational contribution to Australian ethnohistory, combining scholarly precision with a commitment to justice and historical truth.
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Author: Diane Barwick and Tom Stannage (Editors)
Binding: Paperback
Published: Aboriginal History, Dept of Pacific & Southeast Asian History, Canberra, 1979
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Edited by Diane Barwick and Tom Stannage, this two-part volume of Aboriginal History presents a rigorous and multidisciplinary examination of Indigenous experience, resistance, and representation in colonial and post-colonial Australia. Drawing from archival records, oral histories, and anthropological fieldwork, the collection documents frontier violence, mission policy, and the legal mechanisms that shaped Aboriginal lives. It argues for a critical reappraisal of settler narratives and foregrounds Indigenous agency in historical reconstruction. Part One addresses methodological challenges and historiographical tensions, while Part Two offers regional case studies that illustrate the diversity of Aboriginal responses to dispossession and control. The editors instruct scholars to confront the silences embedded in official records and to privilege Indigenous testimony as historical evidence. This volume stands as a foundational contribution to Australian ethnohistory, combining scholarly precision with a commitment to justice and historical truth.
