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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Six Australian Battlefields
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'Generations of Australians have been taught that no wars have ever been fought on Australian soil. Yet as many as 20,000 black Australians died fighting a war of resistance that lasted for more than a century.'

Six Australian Battlefields presents an alternative view of history. Through detailed accounts of four great clashes, it confronts the reader with the realities of life on the Australian frontier. And through a retelling of the stories of Vinegar Hill and Eureka it reminds the reader of the central place of resistance in our past.' (Source: Publisher's website)

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    • St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1998 .
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      Extent: xii, 324p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Published March 1998.
      ISBN: 1864486724, 9781864486728

Works about this Work

Book Dispels 'Wars' Myth 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 1 July no. 179 1998; (p. 28)

— Review of Six Australian Battlefields Al Grassby , Marji Hill , 1998 single work criticism
'This book dispels the myth that no wars have ever been fought on Australian soil...'
[Review Essay] Six Australian Battlefields : The Black Resistance to Invasion and the White Struggle against Colonial Oppression; A Hundred Years War Richard Buchhorn , 1989 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 1989; (p. 76-78)

'In the mid-1950's my requests of a number of bookshops for publications on matters Aboriginal yielded but one: A.O. Neville's Australia's Coloured Minority (1947), the analysis and prescriptions of a retired Western Australian Commissioner of Native Affairs. This was the era of 'The Great Australian Silence' of W.E.H. Stanner's 1968 Boyer Lectures. That silence has since been broken; and these two books make a welcome further contribution. They also serve as reminders that the tasks of getting the story together, sorting out the terms of reference, and relating the past to the present, are still in their early days.' (Introduction)

Book Dispels 'Wars' Myth 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 1 July no. 179 1998; (p. 28)

— Review of Six Australian Battlefields Al Grassby , Marji Hill , 1998 single work criticism
'This book dispels the myth that no wars have ever been fought on Australian soil...'
[Review Essay] Six Australian Battlefields : The Black Resistance to Invasion and the White Struggle against Colonial Oppression; A Hundred Years War Richard Buchhorn , 1989 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 1989; (p. 76-78)

'In the mid-1950's my requests of a number of bookshops for publications on matters Aboriginal yielded but one: A.O. Neville's Australia's Coloured Minority (1947), the analysis and prescriptions of a retired Western Australian Commissioner of Native Affairs. This was the era of 'The Great Australian Silence' of W.E.H. Stanner's 1968 Boyer Lectures. That silence has since been broken; and these two books make a welcome further contribution. They also serve as reminders that the tasks of getting the story together, sorting out the terms of reference, and relating the past to the present, are still in their early days.' (Introduction)

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