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A History of Tasmania by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of both Indigenous Tasmanians and British settlers, author Henry Reynolds provides an original and engaging exp ...Show more
Black War - Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania by Nicholas Clements; Henry Reynolds (Foreword by)
Category: Non-Fiction
Between 1825 and 1831 close to 200 Britons and 1000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black War. It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia’s history, yet many Australians know little about it. The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly at the ...Show more
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Henry Reynolds
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Raised by missionaries, Jimmie Blacksmith, a young half-castle Aboriginal man, is poignantly caught between the ways of his black forefathers and those of the white society to which he aspires. Exploited by his boss and betrayed by his [white] wife, he declares war on his white employers and goes on a v ...Show more
Dispossession - Black Australians and White Invaders (POD) by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
A fascinating collection of documents revealing in their own words how white Australians regarded Aboriginal people in the two centuries since white colonisation led to black dispossession.
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
Category: Non-Fiction
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more
The Other Side of the Frontier by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, this book describes the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.
This Whispering in Our Hearts by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
Shortlisted, Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1998 ..Shortlisted, Individual Category, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards 1998..Highly Commended, Human Rights Award in Arts Non-Fiction, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1998..'How i ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
Category: Australiana
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
Category: Australiana
Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and ’30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies led the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil. They killed or wounded some 354 — or 4 per cent — of the ...Show more
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
Category: Non-Fiction
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more