In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier by Amanda Nettelbeck
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1891 for the murder of two Aboriginal men, and was posted to an even more remote frontier in the Top End. During his time in ...Show more
Monumental Disruptions: Aboriginal People and Colonial Commemorations in So-Called Australia by Bronwyn Carlson, Terri Farrelly
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
What is the place of Australia’s colonial memorials in today’s society? Do we remove, destroy or amend? Monumental Disruptions investigates how these memorials have been viewed, and are viewed, by First Nations people to find a way forward. In June 2020, on the heels of Australia’s James Cook anniver ...Show more
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An introduction to Indigenous Australia by Bruce Pascoe & AIATSIS
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
A revised edition of The Little Red Yellow Black Book will update this successful and widely used introduction to contemporary Indigenous Australia. Written from an Indigenous viewpoint, The Little Red Yellow Black Book is a competitively priced and accessible resource that offers a glimpse of the histo ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
The Other Side of the Frontier by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, this book describes the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans.
The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 by Dr Stephen Gapps
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians--described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist--around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative bo ...Show more
Artists of the Western Desert
$85.00 AUD
Category: History
This is a book of portrait studies of more than 80 senior artists of the Western Desert art movement. Each stunning full-page portrait, reproduced in duotone, is accompanied on its opposite page by an example of the artists work. The photographers have made a number of journeys to significant Indigenous ...Show more
Sand and StonePigeon by Kevin James Moran
$41.99 AUD
Category: History
"This is Pigeon's story and of those who suffered his reign of terror and the men who hunted him."--Back cover.
The Original Australians - Story of the Aboriginal people by Josephine Flood
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This fascinating and intelligent volume tells the remarkable story of Australian Aboriginal history from its distant beginnings in the age of Dreamtime, through the first contact with Europeans and other outsiders, right up to the present day. "The Original Australians" offers stunning insights into the ...Show more