last man: a British genocide in Tasmania
TitleThe last man: a British genocide in Tasmania; British genocide in Tasmania
Author
Call number994.600499159/0001
Object number08987
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherI.B.Tauris
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionxxi,263p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
ISBN9781780766263
Description
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide one of the earliest of the modern era is virtually forgotten in Britain today. This book specifically explores the role of the British government and wider society in the destruction of the Aboriginal Tasmanians..