Telling The Truth About Aboriginal History

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen And Unwin
Publisher Place: Crows Nest
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 264 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9781741145779