Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538134344)

Vendor: Mitchell Rolls
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Format: Hardcover
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Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

$115.00

Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

$115.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Aboriginal Australians first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago, occupying and adapting to a range of environmental conditions--from tropical estuarine habitats, densely forested regions, open plains, and arid desert country to cold, mountainous, and often wet and snowy high country. Cultures adapted according to the different conditions and adapted again to environmental changes brought about by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. European colonization of the island continent in 1788 not only introduced diseases to which Aborigines had no immunity but also began an enduring and at times violent conflict over land and resources. Reconciliation between Aborigines and the settler population remains unresolved.


This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and more than 300 cross-referenced entries on the politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture of the Aborigines. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the indigenous people of Australia.

Author: Mitchell Rolls,Murray Johnson
ISBN-10: 1538134349
ISBN-13: 9781538134344
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
By Mitchell Rolls
By Mitchell Rolls
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MITCHELL ROLLS is senior lecturer and coordinator of Aboriginal Studies in the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. His most recent monographs are Travelling Home, Walkabout Magazine and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia (Anthem Press, 2016, co-authored with Anna Johnston), and Australian Indigenous Studies: Research and Practice (Peter Lang, 2016, co-authored with Terry Moore, Carol Pybus and David Moltow).


MURRAY JOHNSON is a Freelance Historian and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland. His most recent monographs include Australia's Ancient Aboriginal Past: A Global Perspective (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014), and Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History (New South Wales University Press, 2015, co-authored with Ian McFarlane).

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