Steps to the scaffold : the untold story of Tasmania's black bushrangers / by Robert Cox
- Bib ID:
- 3078193
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cox, Robert
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Pawleena, Tas. : Cornhill Publishing, 2004
- v, 169 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0975197703
- Summary:
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Storiesof Musquito, Black Jack, Black Tom, Jack, Black Dick, Pevay and Timmy and their companions and their violent acts against white settlers in Tasmania; race relations, including violence as settlement spread; discusses briefly some of causes of increasingly violent Aboriginal retaliation against white settlers from 1823; discusses differing views of Aboriginals committing violence, arguing that from different viewpoints they can be seen as criminals and bushrangers or heroes and freedom fighters.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 165-166.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2004
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