Author: Attwood, Bain.
Title: The Making of the Aborigines.
Description: Sydney Allen & Unwin, 1989. 1st ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, map, diagram, faint toning edges, slight crease bottom edge rear cover & last three pages, minor edgewear. 181 pp. In this original study, Bain Attwood (historian, Monash University) reveals how relationships between black Australians and European colonisers determined the hearts and minds of the Indigenous peoples, making them self-adopt the word Aboriginal (not previously used). A new perspectives on racial ideology, government policy and the rule of law. He shows how the complex meanings and significance of the patterns of association woven between European and Aborigine held for both groups. A story of cultural change and continuity, both poignant and disturbing in its telling. ISBN: 004370185X

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