The Eureka Rebellion The History And Legacy Of The Gold Miners Uprising Against The British In Australia Charles River Editors by Charles River Editors 9798657475746, 865747574X instant download after payment.

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading "A company of troopers & military carried the war into the enemies camp. In a very short time numbers were shot and hundreds taken prisoner...The sight in the morning was truly appalling - Men lying dead slain by evil. The remedy is very lamentable but it appears it was necessary. It is hoped now rebellion will be checked." - Reverend Theophilus TaylorA land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. However, the first human footprints on this vast territory were felt 70,000 years earlier, as people began to cross the periodic land bridges and the short sea crossings from Southeast Asia.The history of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, known in contemporary anthropology as the "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia," is a complex and continually evolving field of study, and it has been colored by politics. For generations after the arrival of whites in Australia, the Aboriginal people were disregarded and marginalized, largely because they offered little in the way of a labor resource, and they occupied land required for European settlement. Although Australia was actually colonized by the forced dispossession of the indigenous Aboriginals, the Commonwealth of Australia came about by the free federation of six self-governing British colonies in 1901, which makes it one of just a handful of nations that can proudly claim this. Thus, Australia is often imagined as a nation untouched by the pains that have accompanied the births of most other nations. While it is certainly true that the founding fathers of the Australian federation discussed the future of their nation without the fear of war, it is equally true that Australia's history was shaped by violence. Along with the forced disposs