Scars in the Landscape: A Register of Massacre Sites in Western Victoria, 1803-1859

Ian Clark

Canberra

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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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1995

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First Edition.

27cm x 20.5cm. x, 200 pages, black and white illustrations, maps. Illustrated wrappers.

“Scars in the Landscape is a register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people discovered during Ian Clark’s doctoral research into western Victoria, and covers the period 1803 to 1859. In a deliberate challenge to the ideology that the colonisation of western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveals that violence was widespread. … Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and by studying place names in the region, Ian Clark presents us with a detailed, meticulously researched study of massacres in one Australian region. According to Professor Henry Reynolds ‘it provides a powerful riposte to those who doubt the intensity and ubiquity of frontier conflicts as well as standing alone as a fine piece of detailed scholarship’.” (from publisher’s blurb)

Ghost tan to upper wrappers verso. Minor shelf and handling wear. Very Good Condition.