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Black War - Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania by Nicholas Clements; Henry Reynolds (Foreword by)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Between 1825 and 1831 close to 200 Britons and 1000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black War. It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia’s history, yet many Australians know little about it. The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly at the ...Show more
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more
The Other Side of the Frontier by Henry Reynolds
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, this book describes the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.
This Whispering in Our Hearts by Henry Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Shortlisted, Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1998 ..Shortlisted, Individual Category, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards 1998..Highly Commended, Human Rights Award in Arts Non-Fiction, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1998..'How i ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more
Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coi ...Show more
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