'A fine beginning for those intent on understanding the colonial past that shaped black and white Australia.' - Richard Broome, author of Aboriginal Australians Terrible Hard Biscuits introduces the main themes in the history of Aboriginal Australia: the complexity of Aboriginal-European relations since 1788, how Aboriginal identity and cultures survived invasion, dispossession and dislocation, and how indigenous Australians have survived to take their place in today's society. Each essay in Terrible Hard Biscuits has ...
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'A fine beginning for those intent on understanding the colonial past that shaped black and white Australia.' - Richard Broome, author of Aboriginal Australians Terrible Hard Biscuits introduces the main themes in the history of Aboriginal Australia: the complexity of Aboriginal-European relations since 1788, how Aboriginal identity and cultures survived invasion, dispossession and dislocation, and how indigenous Australians have survived to take their place in today's society. Each essay in Terrible Hard Biscuits has been chosen for the clarity of its writing and for its depth of understanding. The Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal authors range across Australia's post-invasion history and their accounts focus on the more traditionally oriented communities in remote areas as well as on urban and fringe dwellers. For twenty years the journal Aboriginal History has attracted the best writing on Australia's Aboriginal past. Each essay in Terrible Hard Biscuits was selected from this journal to provide essential reading for students of Aboriginal studies and Australian studies. The chronological and geographic range of the contents will prove invaluable in surveying a crucial element of Australia's past - and present.
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Add this copy of Terrible Hard Biscuits. a Reader in Aboriginal History to cart. $24.41, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1996 by Allen & Unwin-Journal of Aboriginal History.
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VG+ Association Copy. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & sunned, slight spotting); pp. xviii (last blank), 284, with illustrations. A very good copy. Ex-libris anthropologist Jeremy Long with his occasional pencil notes and a brief ALS on post-it note addressed to him by Aboriginal linguist, Luise Hercus.
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Very Good. No dustjacket. pp. 284, "Peter Read and Val Chapman lecture in History at the Australian National University. A fine beginning for those intent on understanding the colonial past that shaped black and white Australia. -Richard Broome, author of Aboriginal Australia." Larger 8vo.
Add this copy of Terrible Hard Biscuits: a Reader in Aboriginal History to cart. $79.47, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Routledge.