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Possession : Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History

By Bain Attwood; Helen Doyle; Liz Reed

Book information

Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Year
2009
ISBN
9780522868579, 9780522851144
LCC
GN666 .A889 2009
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
21 MB (21886823 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
361\0
Time added
2023-08-21 16:23:52
Aboriginal Australians-Land tenure. ; Land tenure-etc.; HIS000000; HIS004000; SOC008030laws

Description

It contemplates why these agreements were forged, how the Aboriginal people understood their terms, why government repudiated them, and how settlers claimed to be the rightful owners of the land. Bain Attwood also reveals the ways in which the settler society has endeavoured to make good its act of possession--by repeatedly creating histories that have recalled or repressed the memory of Batman, the treaties, and the Aborigines' destruction and dispossession--and charts how Aboriginal people have unsettled this matter of history through their remembering.

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