Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience edited by Bain Attwood and S G Foster

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with all corners now protected with book tape. Marks on foredges. Previous owner's sticker on inside front cover. Body text and binding are still very good.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Australia was often the scene of conflict as Europeans sized up the land and its resources, and its original owners fought back. The extent of the conflict and the degree of violence are matters of much controversy.

This book is based on a forum held at the National Museum and presents a series of essays by leading contributors to the debate. From different historical and political perspectives, they address several key questions: What happened? How do we know? How do we remember? How do we tell? Together, their answers make a major contribution to the study of cross-cultural relations in Australia's past and provide valuable background for anyone who wishes to understand relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians today. (back cover)

Contributors include: Lyndall Ryan, D J Mulvaney, Jan Critchett, Raymond Evans, Henry Reynolds, Richard Broome, Keith Windschuttle, Alan Atkinson, Deborah Bird Rose, Tom Griffiths, David Andrew Roberts, Geoffrey Bolton, Bain Attwood, Ann Curthoys and Graeme Davison.