QUESTION
How have historians assessed the conflict between Europeans and Australian Aboriginal people in early NSW or Van Diemen’s Land?
PRIMARY SOURCES
1.Eyre, Edward John. 1845. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound in the Years 1840-1. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of their Relations with Europeans.
2)A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. Watkin Tench. (Chapter 17)
3)Newspaper article from Colonial Times,Hobart, Tasmania, Friday 11 June 1830. “Aborigines”
(http:/trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8645177?searchTerm=aborigines&searchLimits=)
(if writer finds more important primary readings than above, please use instead.)
SECONDARY READINGS
1)Broome, R.”The Gamaraigal Confront the British” in Aboriginal Australians: Black Responses to White Dominance:, 1788-1980. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1982.
2)Kent, David, “Frontier Conflict and Aboriginal deaths: how do we weigh the evidence:, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol 8, 2006.
3)Reynolds, H, “Explorers and Before”, in The Other Side of the Frontier. Ringwood: Penguin, 1981, pp 5-29.
4)Ryan, L, “War in the settled districts 1829-31: The European Response” and “War in the settled districts: The Aboriginal Response, in Aboriginal Tasmanians. St Lucia: QUP, 1981, pp 101-123
5) Shaw, A.G.L. “British Policy Towards the Australian Aborigines, 1930-1850” Australian Historical Studies, No 99 October 1992.
6)Turnball, C “Social Background” in his Black War: The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines, Cheshire: 1948, pp 22-44.
7)Windschuttle, Keith, “The Myths of Frontier massacres in Australian History” Parts I & II, Quadrant, October and November 2000.
(Keith Windschuttle attempted to discredit exaggerated claims of massacres at many sites. Many historians were not of the same opinion as Windschuttle. This is a KEY POINT to consider when addressing this question) Windschuttle MUST BE included in essay.)
9 sources must be used=
3 primary and 6 secondary or
4 primary and 5 secondary.
AUSTRALIAN history writer required.
Essay must be 2000 words. Essay to be fully referenced. Footnotes essential at bottom of page with;
name of author
title of the source
name of the city and publisher of the source
date of publication
page number(s)
plus Bibliography at end.
Ibid allowed in footnotes.
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