War at home in black and white

(2014) War at home in black and white. The Australian, May(3), 12 May 2014. [Book/Film/Article Review]

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A review of "The Black War: Fear, Sex, and Resistance in Tasmania" written by Nicholas Clements, published by UQP. Unity is perhaps the single most significant feature of Nicholas Clements’s The Black War : unity of object, of method and of outcome. The book presents a startling, confronting view of the period between 1825 and 1831 when the stalemate that had characterised the early phase of Tasmanian colonisation ended and full-blown conflict engulfed the whole of the settled areas. This period, long called the Black War, has been the subject of a great deal of academic investigation in recent years, but not since Henry Reynolds’s 1981 work The Other Side of the Frontier have we been presented so lucidly with an Aboriginal perspective on the fighting...

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ID Code: 111927
Item Type: Contribution to Newspaper, Magazine or Website (Book/Film/Article Review)
Refereed: No
ORCID iD:
Wilson, Rohanorcid.org/0000-0001-5405-4360
Keywords: Aboriginal Tasmanians, Nicholas Clements, Tasmanian history, The Black War
ISSN: 1038-8761
Pure ID: 87490439
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty
Copyright Owner: 2014 The Australian
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Deposited On: 05 Oct 2017 02:15
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2024 07:47