- Hardcover: 472 pages
- Publisher: Macleay Press (Nov 2004)
- ISBN-10: 1876492058
- ISBN-13: 978-1876492052
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,166,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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First of three volumes. This controversial book challenges the currently received versions about the impact of colonisation on the Aborigines. The author charges the leading historians in the field with having deceived their readers by misinterpreting much of the evidence and of fabricating some evidence.
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This review is from: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 (Hardcover)
Can Diemens land is supposed to be the site of one of the early complete genocides of people. This is of course a partial fib already because we know of clear genocides in other places going back to the period of Bible(how else can the disappearence of the Zaroastrians be explained for instance?). The land itself was originally settled by whites after the establishment of a penal colony in 1803. After a number of altercations the Lt. Govenor authorized a number of measures including bounties to stop Aboriginal-white clashes and punish the Aboriginal tribes. By 1847 after more policies were enacted the last remnants of the Aboriginals, some 50 adults were left alive on an island off Tasmania(Van Diemen's land). They all soon died out. This is the official story. However there is more to this. In this excellent critique of the scholarship some canards are disposed of and academics who have written on Aboriginal history are accused of either fabricating the past, creating massacres or more pointedly shading events and mis-characterizing them. This book exposes the complexities, vagaries, brutal realities and more nuanced picture of what took place. It doesnt deny that the Aboriginal, indigenous, native population indeed was killed off and mostly as a result of white policies, but it seeks a deeper understanding of what took place. A worthy endeavor, not racist revisionism as it has been accused of.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Hooray for Winschuttle,
By David C. Hawcroft - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 (Hardcover)
I haven't finished reading it but I am convinced of the validity of his scholarship, his scientific method, his research and his exposure of lack of the above in various other publications. I am, for instance, after reading this, totally convinced that the then Governor General's 2001 apology to the Kija people was an apology for something that clearly never happened and that people of that standing in positions such as that make errors of that magnitude shocks me, frightens me and boggles my mind. Against that background the ravings of those reviewers attempting to accuse Winschuttle of being a Holocaust Denyer or somesuch are merely pitiful and evidence of just how far this 'non-thinking' paradigm that led the GG astray extends. Winschuttle lays it all out for you to check for yourself. He does not engage in mud slinging, abuse, hysteria. He simply lifts a rock, which any of us could have perhaps lifted for ourselves, and exposes the rottenness beneath. This book is a must-read. And Winschuttle's logical, systematic, thorough, unbiased, scientific approach is something we should all try to copy. 9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Windschuttle exposes where ideology trumps fact,
By Geoffrey Jones - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 (Hardcover)
A very eye-opening review of the historical evidence for alleged atrocities committed by white... settlers against Tasmanian Aborigines. Rather than viewing the Natives as little better than animals, the English at the time were influenced by humanitarian Evangelicalism and Enlightenment values which emphasized the unity and equality of mankind. These values had just prevailed in abolishing the English slave-trade.
Windschuttle combs thru the original sources and concludes that about 118 Natives were killed by whites--hardly genocide. The ancient Tasmanians were very suscepible to colds and the flu which decimated their numbers. Also the women on Robinson's Flinders Island community failed to breed, probably due to STD induced sterility as a result of widespread prostitution that was encouraged by their husbands and fathers. I plan to read the rebuttal Whitewash but it will have to be GOOD to answer Windschuttle's claims. Every Tasmanian should read this controversial book. 4 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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in praise of the irrational,
By Rose Hobart "Rose Hobart" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 (Hardcover)
Windshuffle's book would make David Irving proud. Same 'explanations', same claims. Our bad conscience has no better moppet that these type of lettered frauds. The Great Australian Silence, like the American one, the German one, the Zionist one... same guilty lies, the same miffed ego, the same hysterical individualization of shame. Nothing is worse than Scientific Racism. Compared to Windschipple, the drunken bigot is a harmless acolyte. In Windcripple, he finds a master.
So, cover up generations of murder with words like broken leaves, and as strong. |
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