Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of maps

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Aboriginal landscape

2 European visitors, 1642-1802

3 European invaders: the sealers, 1800-1837

4 European invaders: convicts and agriculturalists, 1803-20

5 European invaders: the pastoralists, 1820-28

6 War in the settled districts, 1829-31: the European response

7 War in the settled districts: the Aboriginal response

8 Robinson the conciliator, 1828-50

9 From conciliator to captor

10 The resistance of the Aborigines beyond the frontier, 1832-34

11 The reckoning

12 Flinders Island 1835-39: false hopes and broken promises

13 Flinders Island 1839-47: a push for independence

14 The fragments

15 The Islanders: emergence of a new Aboriginal community

16 The Tasmanian Aborigines in the twentieth century

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Ind

About the Author

Dr Lyndall Ryan is Head of the Women's Studies Program at Flinders University. While she has long been active in the politics of the women's movement, including service as the Prime Minister's Adviser on Women's Affairs, she has always maintained her interest in Aboriginal history. Trained as an historian at the University of Sydney and ANU, she continues to contribute to debate on the history of the Aborigines.