Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement Tapa blanda -

University of New South Wales Press, 2021. Soft cover. Very Good. 5x1x8. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.

University of NSW, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles.What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? If the 1901 parliament did not have control of the whole continent, particularly the North, by what right could the new nation claim it?The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the centuries-long legal position about British claims to the land far less imposing than it appears.In Truth-Telling, influential historian Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical… Leer más

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Sydney: NewSouth Publishing / University of New South Wales Press, 2021. 1st ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 274 pp. Henry Reynolds, the noted Australian historian, has been inspired by the 'Uluru Statement from the Heart', and its statement that Indigenous sovereignty 'has been ceded or extinguished'. He revisits the very premise of the settlement of Australia and challenges us to do the same. This book shows why our national War Memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important.

Paperback / softback. New.

Univ of New South Wales, 2021. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.87 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.