Valerie Chapman: Terrible Hard Biscuits: A Reader in Aboriginal History/AUST.

Description: Terrible Hard Biscuits A Reader in Aboriginal History Edited byValerie Chapman & Peter Read BBBBBBBBBBBB Sydney, NSW: published jointly by Allen & Unwin and Journal of Aboriginal History, 1996. Paperback. 9 x 7 in. 284 pages. Includes maps and black & white photos. Condition: good. This is a nice clean, tight copy ~ a number of pencil underlinings throughout the text ~ a small ownership sticker inside the back cover ~ otherwise a good sound reading copy. BBBBBBBBBBBB Terrible Hard Biscuits introduces the main themes in the history of Aboriginal Australia: the complexity of Aboriginal-European relations since 1788, how Aboriginal identity and cultures survived invasion, dispossession and dislocation, and how indigenous Australians have survived to take their place in today's society.Each essay in Terrible Hard Biscuits has been chosen for the clarity of its writing and for its depth of understanding. The Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal authors range across Australia's post-invasion history and their accounts focus on the more traditionally oriented communities in remote areas as well as on urban and fringe dwellers.For twenty years the journal Aboriginal History has attracted the best writing on Australia's Aboriginal past. Each essay in Terrible Hard Biscuits was selected from this journal to provide essential reading for students of Aboriginal studies and Australian studies. The chronological and geographic range of the contents will prove invaluable in surveying a crucial element of Australia's past - and present. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this book may contain images or names of deceased persons.

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