General history of Australia; early chapters discuss contact history; violent conflict, use of Aborigines as guides and arguments used to justify occupation of land, European attitudes to land and the physical taming of the continent.
v, 388 p., [12] p. of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm. #160722 Revised Edition.
Australia, to 1900. | Settlement and contacts – Explorers. | Colonisation. | Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900. | History. | Australia — History — 1788-1900.
Geoffrey Blainey is an Australian historian, born 1930 in Melbourne, Victoria. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He taught at the University of Melbourne and held chairs in economic history and history. He taught at Harvard University as a visiting professor of Australian Studies. He has written over 36 and is the author of The Story of Australia’s People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia for which he was a joint winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian history.