Invasion to Embassy : Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodall, Heather, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Government relations.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Native title (Australia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Invasion to Embassy challenges the conventional view of Aboriginal politics to present a bold new account of Aboriginal responses to invasion and dispossession in New South Wales.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Maps

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Usage

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I Beyond the Invasion, 1788 to 1850s

1 Land and Meanings

2 Invasion and Land

3 Land and White Desire

4 Recognising Native Title, 1838-52

5 Dual Occupation

Part II Regaining Land, 1860s to 1900s

6 Aboriginal Land Demands

7 The Aborigines Protection Board

8 The Aboriginal Experience of Regained Lands

9 Escalating Pressures

Part III 'For Land and Liberty'

10 Land, Children and Power

11 Dispossessions

12 Fighting Back

Part IV Under the 'Dog Act', 1930s

13 Land as Prison

14 The Depression Crises and Cumeragunja

15 The 'Dog Act' in the West

16 The 'Dog Act' on the Coast

17 'The Big Fight'

18 The Cumeragunja Strike, 1939

Part V Border Wars, 1948 to 1965

19 Shifting boundaries

20 Spatial Politics: Surveillance, Segregation and Land

21 Moving Away

22 Reasserting Land Rights, 1957-64

Part VI The ground on which the embassy rose, 1965 to 1972

23 Referendum and Reality

24 'Hungry For Our Own Ground'

Epilogue 'Back to Where the Story Started'

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Goodall, Heather Invasion to Embassy

ISBN:

9781743329139

OCLC:

1493003548