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Native fiction.(Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume 1, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847)(Book Review)
Keith Windschuttle The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume 1, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847. Macleay Press, Sydney. A$4-9.95
The island of Tasmania is now seen in scholarly and unscholarly circles as the setting for one of the most disgraceful episodes in the recorded history of the human race. According to this story, virtually a whole people was wilfully exterminated by the incoming British--the rulers, soldiers, convicts, and free settlers. Various historians and other social scientists have described it as a policy of genocide, and a forerunner of what happened a century later in Hitler's Europe. In this wideranging work, the Australian historian Keith ...
- The empire strikes back.(Van Diemen's Land)(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Izzard, John July 1, 2008 700+ words
...The underlying theme of Van Diemen's Land is "massacres...lived in the backwoods of Van Diemen's Land in a sort of...either black or white in Van Diemen's Land. The British...inflicted upon the Tasmanian Aborigines, particularly Aboriginal...
- Van Diemen's Land.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Atkinson, Alan September 1, 2008 700+ words
...published in 1972. Van Diemen's Land offers a similar...understanding is the idea that Van Diemen's Land was rich and...The publication of Van Diemen's Land signals an entirely...extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines. Boyce sets out a case...
- Reassuring "White Australia": a Review of The Fabrication of Aboriginal...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Smithers, Gregory D.B. December 22, 2003 700+ words
...of Australian Aborigines since 1788. Volume one focuses on Van Diemen's Land (renamed...1970s orthodoxy, Aborigines were "driven...that has rescued Aborigines from their former...that colonial Van Diemen's Land was...
- James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Petrow, Stefan December 1, 2008 700+ words
...their quick adoption by Aborigines, and much of that...The early settlers in Van Diemen's Land found hunting...force to remove the Aborigines to Flinders Island...earlier chapters on the Aborigines. Readers should be...years of settlement in Van Diemen's Land. The last...
- Faith, fear and foreboding en route to Van Diemen's Land; English Passengers....
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) June 16, 2001 700+ words
...Eden is in fact Van Diemen's Land, recently...the scene out on Van Diemen's Land to be...of the Tasmanian Aborigines is unemotionally...language of the Aborigine Peevay. When...intention to throw the Aborigines off their land...
- Colonial picturesque: emigration to Van Diemen's Land transformed John Glover,...
- Magazine article from: Apollo McCaughey, Patrick August 1, 2004 700+ words
...in Tasmania--then Van Diemen's Land--the conventional...the brave new world of Van Diemen's Land to alter the...passing of the Tasmanian aborigine, the Palawa. When...virtually exterminated the aborigines, was horrific recent...
- Van Diemen's reborn land; Tasmania.(Tasmania's boom)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 17, 2004 700+ words
...always been burdened by its past. Under its old name, Van Diemen's Land, it was notorious as Australia's most violent...colony, a place where convicts were brutalised and aborigines hunted down. That savage history haunted Tasmania long...
- Varieties of Vice-Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section).(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Harrison, Jennifer March 1, 2006 700+ words
...1847 and 1855. For the Van Diemen's Land years which...personalities residing in Van Diemen's Land during Denison...at Government House, Aborigines on Flinders Island...Irelanders transported to Van Diemen's Land following their...