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Aboriginal
Aboriginal Studies
Arnhem Land
australian history
Author_John Connor
books about australia
books about colonial australia
Botany Bay
British empire
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Colonial History
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First Fleet
First Nations people
Hawkesbury
Kuring-gai
Port Jackson
settlers
Swan River
war rations
wartime
Product details
- ISBN 9780868407562
- Weight: 248g
- Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2002
- Publisher: UNSW Press
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the Swan River to the Hawkesbury, and from the sticky Arnhem Land mangrove to the soft green hills of Tasmania, this book describes the major conflicts fought on the Australian frontier to 1838. Based on extensive research and using overseas frontier wars to add perspective to the Australian experience, The Australian Frontier Wars 1788-1838 will change our view of Australian history forever. Over the last thirty years, Australians have become increasingly aware that violence accompanied the colonisation of their continent. Historians have shown that the armed conflicts between Aborigines and British settlers and soldiers, though small in scale and sporadic in nature, can truly be described as 'wars'. However, a gap remains at the heart of our understanding of the Australian frontier: the actual warfare, and the weapons and tactics used to fight it, remain poorly understood. The Australian Frontier Wars is the first book-length military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first fifty years of British occupation in Australia, this book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier. It shows how Aborigines developed a new form of warfare that diffe
John Connor is a PhD student in the School of History, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. A graduate of the Australian National University, the University of Canberra and the University of New South Wales, he has written on many aspects of Australian military history.
