The Black War

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Between 1825 and 1831, close to 200 Britons and 1,000 Aborigines died violently in xml namespace prefix st1 ns urn schemas microsoft com office smarttags Tasmania s Black War It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia s history, yet many Australians know little about it The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly at the experiences and attitudes of those who took part in the conflict By contrasting the perspectives of colonists and Aborigines, Nicholas Clements takes a deeply human look at the events that led to the shocking violence and tragedy of the war, detailing raw personal accounts that shed light on the tribes, families, and individuals involved as they struggled to survive in their turbulent world The Black War presents a compelling and challenging view of Australia s early contact history, the legacy of which reverberates strongly to the present day. Read The Black War author Nicholas Clements – kino-fada.fr The Black War is a rigorous, even handed work that powerfully brings to light a history of which I was largely ignorant Clements account of armed conflict between white settlers and Aborigines in Tasmania 1824 31 fully justifies the claim that this was a war always verging on a war of complete extermination on the side of the whites, and rapidly becoming an increasingly desperate war of survival for Tasmania s indigenous people.Clements notes that this war was extremely violent and deadly The Black War is a rigorous, even handed work that powerfully brings to light a history of which I was largely ignorant Clements account of armed conflict between white settlers and...The Black War is the name given to the conflict between the indigenous population of Tasmania and their conflict with the European settlers It ran from around 1824 to 1831 and represents both the largest military operation on Australian soil and a brutal guerrilla conflict It also featured fear, lust, paranoia and despair on both sides.The most striking feature of this book is that every chapter is equally divided between telling the story of Whites and Blacks This clever device allows Clemen The Black War is the name given to the conflict between the indigenous population of Tasmania and their conflict with the European settlers It ran from around 1824 to 1831 and represents both the largest military operation on Australian soil and a brutal guerrilla conflict It also featured fear, lust, paranoia and despair on both sides.The most striking feature of this book is that every chapter is equally divided between telling the story of Whites and Blacks This clever device allows Clements to explore, explain and ultimately sympathise with both sides.Lest anyone be confused, or willing to believe indulgent lies, the moral scales are heavily weighted in one direction The Tasmanian aborigines lived for 33 000 years on this remote island, yet survived barely 30after white colonialists arrived They f...The Tasmanian Aborigines lived in total isolation for 20,000 years until the English came at the end of the 18th century to create penal colonies and new settlements The new settlers and their government could not or would not share the island with the Tasmanian Aborigines, so they exterminated all the aborigines in a 35 year war of attrition The author is a native Tasmanian in his thirties who wrote this book as part of a PhD program The book is well researched and written The brutality is The Tasmanian Aborigines lived in...I moved to Tasmania from the mainland nearly eight years ago and made it a goal to find out about the history of this state What I discovered shocked me That very few of my neighbours and work colleagues who had grown up here knew about the history of this state was just as shocking It would seem there had been a deliberate policy not to teach students in this state what had transpired here Thankfully with the National Curriculum this is beginning to change The first thing to understand I moved to Tasmania from the mainland nearly eight years ago and made it a goal to find out about the history of this state What I discovered shocked me That very few of my neighbours and work colleagues who had grown up here knew about the history of this state was just as shocking It would seem there had been a deliberate policy not to teach students in this state what had transpired here Thankfully with the National Curriculum this is beginning to change The first thing to understand about this particular book is that it is not a novel It is a history book It is written with facts and figures based on letters, diaries, written accounts and newspaper articles from the time As such it doesn t encourage a deeper sense of empathy for the people it is written about It is all just a bit removed I guess for people learning about the conflict for the first time, this writing style will be helpful in processing the events and the outcomes described For me, there was a...In my latter years I shied away from it I really did The history needed to be taught in fact, it should be a compulsory requirement in our island s schools But working with the Aboriginal community to improve the outcomes of indigenous students one of the most enlightening and enjoyable aspects of a forty year career , I discovered there were divisions within their number over the story that needed to be told and so, from the classroom perspective, I became wary I stuck to the big pictur In my latter years I shied away from it I really did The history needed to be taught in fact, it should be a compulsory requirement in our island s schools But working with the Aboriginal community to improve t...I came across this beauty while in Tasmania It has easily become one of my favourite non fiction books ever A definite read for anyone interested in the colonialist history of Australia Using whack ton of primary sourc...I put off reading this book for months and months because I thought it would be a searing read This episode of Australian history 1824 1842 was marked by violence, horror and terror The intensity of the conflict and its outcome wasextreme in Tasmania than on the mainland Clements approach to the subject developed over years of research and a pivotal reading of The Palestine Israeli conflict a beginner s guide in 2008 on a rainy day in his one man tent in Serbia, no less He ha I put off reading this book for months and months because I thought it would be a searing read This episode of Australian history 1824 1842 was marked by violence, horror and terror...You hear rumours of bad things that happened a long time ago, but by the time you hear them, they have usually undergone the full gamut of exaggeration and embroidery I wanted to know what really happened about the Aborigines in Tasmania This book informed me, with what I think is as balanced a view as one could expect, given that the Aborigines were a pre literate society and did not leave records in writing It is extremely detailed, as befits a book origin...Clements has done a bloody good job at attempting to take the polemic out of the polemical, but has not quite succeeded in a task that is quite possibly impossible The separation of each chapter into Black and White sections is an ingeneous device which, I am surprised, does not appear to have been used before The research was first rate, with his conclusions falling somewhere in the middle of Reynolds and Boyce, although I confess I still remain a Boyceite I m glad to have added this wor Clements has done a bloody good job at attempting to take the polemic out of t...Very detailed research covering the few years it took the white settlers to remove the Aboriginal inhabitants of Tasmania Chapters are divided into parts covering the perspectives of the White and Black participants A classic study of how human beings treat those who are diff...

The Black War
  • 15 March 2017
  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • 0702250066
  • Nicholas Clements
  • The Black War