The British Subjugation Of Australia: The History Of British Colonization A...

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:The British Subjugation Of Australia: The History Of British Colonization And The Conquest Of The Aboriginal AustraliansISBN13:9781721082964ISBN10:1721082964Author:Charles River Editors (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - *Includes Pictures *Includes Online Resources And A Bibliography For Further Reading It Is Quite Time That Our Children Were Taught A Little More About Their Country, For Shame's Sake - Henry Lawson, Australian Poet A Land Of Almost 3 Million Square Miles Has Lain Since Time Immemorial On The Southern Flank Of The Planet, So Isolated That It Remained Almost Entirely Outside Of European Knowledge Until 1770 From There, However, The Subjugation Of Australia Would Take Place Rapidly Within 20 Years Of The First British Settlements Being Established, The British Presence In Terra Australis Was Secure, And No Other Major Power Was Likely To Mount A Challenge In 1815, Napoleon Would Be Defeated At Waterloo, And Soon Afterwards Would Be Standing On The Barren Cliffs Of Saint Helena, Staring Across The Limitless Atlantic The French, Without A Fleet, Were Out Of The Picture, The Germans Were Yet To Establish A Unified State, Let Alone An Overseas Empire Of Any Significance, And The Dutch Were No Longer Counted Among The Top Tier Of European Powers Australia Lay At An Enormous Distance From London, And Its Administration Was Barely Supervised Thus, Its Development Was Slow In The Beginning, And Its Function Remained Narrowly Defined, But As The 19Th Century Progressed And Peace Took Hold Over Europe, Things Began To Change Immigration Was Steady, And The Small Spores Of European Habitation On The Continent Steadily Grew At The Same Time, The Royal Navy Found Itself With Enormous Resources Of Men And Ships At A Time When There Was No War To Fight British Sailors Were Thus Employed For Survey And Exploration Work, And The Great Expanses Of Australia Attracted Particular Interest It Was An Exciting Time, And An Exciting Age - The World Was Slowly Coming Under European Sway, And Britain Was Rapidly Emerging As Its Leader That Said, The 19Th Century Certainly Wasn't Exciting For The People Who Already Lived In Australia The History Of The Indigenous Inhabitants Of Australia, Known In Contemporary Anthropology As The Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People Of Australia, Is A Complex And Continually Evolving Field Of Study, And It Has Been Colored By Politics For Generations After The Arrival Of Whites In Australia, The Aboriginal People Were Disregarded And Marginalized, Largely Because They Offered Little In The Way Of A Labor Resource, And They Occupied Land Required For European Settlement At The Same Time, It Is A Misconception That Indigenous Australians Meekly Accepted The Invasion Of Their Country By The British, For They Did Not They Certainly Resisted, But As Far As Colonial Wars During That Era Went, The Frontier Conflicts Of Australia Did Not Warrant A Great Deal Of Attention Indigenous Australians Were Hardly A Warlike People, And Without Central Organization, Or Political Cohesion Beyond Scattered Family Groups, They Succumbed To The Orchestrated Advance Of White Settlement With Passionate, But Futile Resistance In Many Instances, Aggressive Clashes Between The Two Groups Simply Gave The White Colonists Reasonable Cause To Inflict A Style Of Genocide On The Aborigines That Stood In The Way Of Progress In Any Case, Their Fate Had Largely Been Sealed By The First European Sneeze In The Terra Australis, Which Preceded The Importation Of The Two Signature Mediums Of Social Destruction The First Was A Collection Of Alien Diseases, Chief Among Smallpox, But Also Cholera, Influenza, Measles, Tuberculosis, Syphilis And The Common Cold The Second Was Alcohol Smallpox Alone Killed More Than 50% Of The Aboriginal Population, And Once The Fabric Of Indigenous Society Had Crumbled, Alcohol Provided Emotional Relief, But Relegated Huge Numbers Of Aborigines To The Margins Of A Robust And Emerging Colonial Society Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2018-06-12Weight:0.19 lbsDimensions:0.12'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:56Language:English

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