Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines Under the British Crown

Description

This work is a comprehensive state-by-state history of the Aboriginal experience. It is made up of a series of regional Aboriginal histories by Australia's leading historians, originally written for the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody. Covering the whole span of white settlement in Australia, the book gives special emphasis to relations between Aborigines and the state, the impact of interventions by various governments on Aboriginal lives, crime and punishment and social control. The book provides a summary of legislation, policy and practice, police and politics, economics and land rights throughout Australia.

Ann McGrath led the History Project of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and is currently Director of the Centre for Community History at the University of New South Wales. Contributors include Paul Behrendt, Peggy Brock, Richard Broome, Heather Goodall, Dawn May, Maykutenner (Vicki Matson-Green), Peter Read, Henry Reynolds and Sandy Toussaint.