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1 online resource (422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : colour illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"The Vandemonian War is an answer to posterity's forgetfulness. This is the story of the war fought between the British Empire and the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land as never told before. We follow the soldiers and convicts into the field, get to know Aboriginal guides and the politics of inter-Tribal relations, and see a famously 'humane' Lieutenant Governor directing it all."--Author website. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Annotation "Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries. The Vandemonian War had many sides and shades, but it was fundamentally a war between the British colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and the Aboriginal people who lived in political and social contradiction to that colony. The Vandemonian War tells the largely untold story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen's Land deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed convicts and mercenaries. In the 1820s and 1830s the British deliberately pushed the Aboriginals out, driving them to the edge of existence. Far from localised fights between farmers and hunters of popular memory, this was a war of sweeping campaigns and brutal tactics, waged by military and paramilitary forces subject to a Lieutenant Governor who was also Colonel Commanding. The British won the Vandemonian War and then discretely and purposefully concealed it."--Author website. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One Conquest and Division; Chapter Two Scouring the Country; Chapter Three Clearing the Settled Districts; Chapter Four Mercenaries and Aboriginal Guides; Chapter Five The Oatlands Roving Parties; Chapter Six Offensive Defence in Reality and Record; Chapter Seven The Methods and Landscape of Settlement; Chapter Eight Aboriginal Auxiliaries; Chapter Nine Pushing Further while Debating Peace; Chapter Ten Roving Still; Chapter Eleven Beyond the Limits of Law and Documentation; Chapter Twelve Keeping up the Pretence and the Pressure |
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Chapter Thirteen Captivity, Qualms and EscalationChapter Fourteen Agitation and Armament; Chapter Fifteen Propaganda and the Preliminary Manoeuvres; Chapter Sixteen Necessity Has No Law; Chapter Seventeen Harass Them if They Cannot Be Taken; Chapter Eighteen From Open War to Black Operations; Chapter Nineteen The War after the War; Chapter Twenty Allies, Enemies and Ambiguities; Chapter Twenty-one Ending the Vandemonian War; Afterword; Pictures; Endnotes; Acknowledgements; Copyright Page |
| Local Note |
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Genocide -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.
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Genocide. |
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Australia. |
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Tasmania. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government relations. |
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1803-1851 |
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Aboriginal Tasmanians. |
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government policy -- History -- 1803-1851.
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Government policy. |
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government relations -- History -- 1803-1851.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians, Treatment of -- History -- 1803-1851.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Crimes against.
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Colonists -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1851.
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Colonists. |
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social conditions -- 1803-1851.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social conditions. |
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Ethnic conflict -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.
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Ethnic conflict. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Race relations.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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Race relations. |
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Tasmania -- Race relations -- History -- 1803-1851.
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Tasmania -- History -- Black War, 1825-1831.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
The secret history of Britain's Tasmanian invasion |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brodie, Nicholas Dean, 1981- Vandemonian war. Richmond, Victoria Hardie Grant Books, 2017 9781743793114 (OCoLC)999630610 |
| ISBN |
9781743585092 electronic book |
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1743585098 electronic book |
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9781743793114 |
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1743793111 |
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