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Telling the truth about Aboriginal history / Bain Attwood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attwood, Bain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--History.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- History.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
- Historiography.
- Australia--Historiography.
- Australia.
- Australia--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 264 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Crows Nest, N. S. W. : Allen & Unwin, [2005]
- Summary:
- This provocative work grapples with some of the most difficult issues in Aboriginal history, showing how they raise fundamental concerns about the nature of historical knowledge, truth, and authority. Discussions of such controversial questions as "How many Aboriginal people were killed in frontier conflict and was it genocide? Was there ever a massacre at Risdon Cove in Tasmania? and" Does Aboriginal oral history count as real history? attempt to shed some light an Australia's historical make-up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1741145775
- OCLC:
- 61666875
- Online:
- Publisher description
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