Other Side of the Frontier: An Interpretation of the Aboriginal Response to the Invasion and Settlement of Australia

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

A study of Aboriginal Australian resistance to the British settlement, or invasion, of Australia from 1788 onwards.

The book constituted the first comprehensive research on this topic, and had a profound impact on Australian historiography. The University of New South Wales Press, which published the book, said it profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history.” Robert Manne described it as “”an important landmark””.

. Using documentary and oral evidence. Henry Reynolds examines the Aboriginal Reactions to European colonisation. Residence came in a variety of form including guerrilla warfare, sorcery, theft and the adoption of the European own tactics and methods.xii, 255 p. ; 21 cm. #180522R/230923/240324 (Name and blacked out on prelims.)

Australian Aborigines. Effects of colonisation of Australia by Great Britain, to 1910  |  Aboriginal Australians — History.  |  Aboriginal Australians — Wars.  |  Government, Resistance to — Australia.  |  Australia — Colonization — History.