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The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847
 
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The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 (Hardcover)

by Keith Windschuttle (Author)
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  • 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,610,383 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 26 Dec 2006
By Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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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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