Table of Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 White Australia: Guilty or Not Guilty?

2 The Frontier: Peaceful Settlement or Brutal Conquest?

3 The Land Question: Are we a Community of Thieves?

4 The Image of the Aborigines: Black Brothers or Degraded Savages?

5 Aborigines in White Society: Citizens or Outcasts?

6 Missionaries: Saviours or Destroyers?

7 Government Policy: Assimilation or Segregation?

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Henry Reynolds, the best-known historian of Aboriginal Australia, is the author of a number of controversial accounts of the Aboriginal experience. Among his books are The Other Side of the Frontier, The Law of the Land, With the White People, Frontier and Aboriginal Sovereignty.