{"product_id":"the-australian-wars-by-rachel-perkins-stephen-gapps-mina-murray-and-henry-reynolds-eds-1","title":"The Australian Wars by Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds (eds)","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs1EFB4FB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Times New Roman;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .csFF168EB{8pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Arial;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csFF168EB\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csFF168EB\"\u003eFor the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csFF168EB\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"_dx_frag_StartFragment\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003eIt is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these first, domestic wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book to tell the story of the continental sweep of massacres, guerilla warfare, resistance and the contests of firearms and traditional Aboriginal weaponry as Indigenous nations resisted colonial occupation of their lands, territory by territory. At stake was the sovereignty of an entire country. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack and white writers tell the stories of these battles across three crucial time periods, and all the states and territories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis history is still alive in those descendants who carry the stories of their ancestors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EFB4FB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Australian Wars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings what for too long has been considered the historical past into the present so that we might know the truth of the origins of this nation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Kangaroo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43823511765080,"sku":"9781761474392","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/8343\/1000\/files\/9781761474392_1.jpg?v=1772598285","url":"https:\/\/redkangaroobooks.au\/products\/the-australian-wars-by-rachel-perkins-stephen-gapps-mina-murray-and-henry-reynolds-eds-1","provider":"Red Kangaroo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}