Fergus Robinson

First edition - Published in trade paperback format and a small number of presentation copies hard bound with dust jacket. The Black Resistance is a powerful contribution to the - movement for a new Australian history — a history centred on the first Australians. It presents massive evidence of a splendid tradition of heroic resistance by the Aboriginal people and establishes that violent struggle against foreign invasion was an on-going and continent wide response. Using material largely ignored by historians, this book traces the dispossession of the Aboriginal people and records the strategic and tactical objectives of tribal defence as well as the aims and methods of the British invaders.… (altro)