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Article: Native fiction.(Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume 1, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847)(Book Review)
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- April 1, 2003
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Keith Windschuttle The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume 1, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847. Macleay Press, Sydney. A$4-9.95
The island of Tasmania is now seen in scholarly and unscholarly circles as the setting for one of the most disgraceful episodes in the recorded history of the human race. According to this story, virtually a whole people was wilfully exterminated by the incoming British--the rulers, soldiers, convicts, and free settlers. Various historians and other social scientists have described it as a policy of genocide, and a forerunner of what happened a century later in Hitler's Europe. In this wideranging work, the Australian historian Keith ...