The fabrication of Aboriginal history : Vol 1, Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1847 / Keith Windschuttle.

Paddington, N.S.W. : Macleay Press, 2002.

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Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1847.

Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- History.

Historiography -- Australia.

Tasmania -- Race relations -- History.

Introduction : The final solution down under

1. The killing fields at Risdon Cove, May 1804

2. The Black Legend in Van Diemen's Land, 1804-1831

3. Black bushrangers and the outbreak of Aboriginal violence, 1823-1826

4. The guerilla warfare thesis and the motives of the Aborigines, 1824-1831

5. Historical scholarship and the invention of massacre stories, 1815-1830

6. The Black Line and the intentions of the colonial authorities, 1830-1831

7. Black Robinson and the origins of Aboriginal internment, 1829-1847

8. Cape Grim and the credibility of The Conciliator, 1828-1834

9. Settler opinion and the extirpation thesis, 1830-1831

10. The death toll and the demise of the Aboriginal population, 1803-1834

11. The historian as prophet and redeemer

Epilogue : Heritage, genealogy and black intellectual authoritarianism.

Includes bibliography and index.

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472 p.