Aboriginal Australians

In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying over two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology, and violence. He also tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation, and traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in modern Australia. Broome's Aboriginal Australians has long been regarded as the most authoritative account of black-white relations in Australia. This fifth edition continues the story, covering the impact of the Northern Territory Intervention, the mining boom in remote Australia, the Uluru Statement, the resurgence of interest in traditional Aboriginal knowledge and culture, and the new generation of Aboriginal leaders.

Richard Broome is Emeritus Professor of History at La Trobe University. One of Australia's most respected scholars of Aboriginal history, he is also author of the prize-winning Aboriginal Victorians.

Preface
Prologue: Endings and beginnings

1 Reflections on a Great Tradition
2 The Eora confront the British
3 Resisting the invaders
4 Cultural resistance amid destruction
5 Radical hope quashed
6 The age of race and northern frontiers
7 Working with cattle
8 Mixed missionary blessings
9 Controlled by boards and caste barriers
10 Fighting for civil rights
11 Struggling for Indigenous rights
12 Hoping for equality
13 Under siege
14 Crisis, intervention and apology
15 Seeking a Voice

Notes
Select bibliography
Index