Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Possession : Batman's treaty and the matter of history / Bain Attwood with Helen Doyle.
  
•    
• Author/Creator:Attwood, Bain.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Doyle, Helen.
  
• Published/Created:Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 2009.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DU124.L35 A88 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.
  Land tenure--Law and legislation--Australia--History.
  Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc.
  Aboriginal Australians--History.
  Aboriginal Australians--Treaties.
  Australia--Race relations.
  
• Description:xv, 415 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:Second numbered series of the Miegunyah volumes ; no. 115.
  Miegunyah Press series. 2nd ser. ; no. 115.
  
• Summary:Fascinating story of the only treaties ever made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia. It contemplates why whites forged these agreements & how the Aboriginal people understood their terms, why the government repudiated them & how the whites claimed to be the rightful owners.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-401) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780522851144 (hbk.)
  0522851142 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:pt. 1. Contesting sovereignty
  Considering a treaty
  Performing the narrative
  Repudiating Aboriginal rights
  pt. 2. Legend making
  Creating a legend
  Remembering Batman
  Making historical places
  Celebrating a centenary
  pt. 3. Remembering history
  Unsettling the legend
  Treating Aboriginal rights
  Reconciling histories.