
An Indigenous South
German Writers on Colonial South Australia
Wakefield Press
Published on 3. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-923042-35-3 (ISBN)
Description
From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies.
As they contributed to the founding and consolidation of a British colony, Germans observed the processes of dispossession and subjugation that changed the lives of First Nations peoples around them forever. More than that, they participated in those profound and tragic changes. Importantly, German settlers and visitors left behind records of the events they witnessed.
This volume collects those precious records and makes them available - most for the first time in English - to a modern readership. It charts the course of German-Australian encounters from first contacts, through the ruptures and violence of a relentlessly expanding European presence and into the twentieth century. As it documents the astounding cultural wealth and complexity of Indigenous peoples under siege, it also lays bare the grim logic of the forces driving their world towards destruction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kent Town
Australia
Illustrations
Black-and-white images throughout
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-923042-35-3 (9781923042353)
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