Forgotten war / Henry Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Henry, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

History.

Aboriginal Australians--Wars.

Australians--Wars.

Australians.

Genocide--Australia.

Genocide.

Race relations.

Colonization.

War.

Australia--Colonization--History.

Australia.

Australia--Race relations--History.

Physical Description:

vii, 280 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2013.

Summary:

Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. Why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier war now than it was one hundred years ago? Forgotten War continues the story told in Henry Reynolds' seminal book The Other Side of the Frontier, which argued that the settlement of Australia had a high level of violence and conflict that we chose to ignore. That book prompted a flowering of research and fieldwork that Reynolds draws on here to give a thorough and systematic account of what caused the frontier wars between white colonists and Aborigines, how many people died and whether the colonists themselves saw frontier conflict as a form of warfare. It is particularly timely as we approach the centenary of WWI. This powerful book makes it clear that there can be no reconciliation without acknowledging the wars fought on our own soil.

Contents:

1 A distressing moment 9

2 But was it warfare? 49

3 What kind of warfare? 85

4 The cost of war 121

5 What was at stake? 158

6 Two very different wars 194

7 One history or two? 228.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781742233925

1742233929

OCLC:

851692281