ISBN:
9780522847444
,
0522847447
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 308 S
,
Kt
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. paperback ed
Series Statement:
Melbourne University Press Australian lives
DDC:
994.0049915
Keywords:
Robinson, George Augustus
;
Aboriginal Australians History
;
Australia
;
Victoria
;
Aboriginal Australians Government relations
;
Australia
;
Victoria
;
Victoria Biography
;
Biografie
;
Robinson, George Augustus 1791-1866
;
Australien
;
Tasmanien
;
Aborigines
Abstract:
A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment. This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect-a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribution of all to what was to become the decimation of Tasmania's Aborigines.
Note:
Originally published: 1988
,
Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-295) and index
