It took the turbulent, conflicted Sixties to incite a reexamination of Australias narrative and put Aboriginal-European relations center stage. Drawing on his PhD thesis completed in 2012, Arnolds study focuses on Aboriginal-European relations in Albany, the port and principal center of Western Australias Great Southern region over a period of 100 years. It examines how members of the European and Aboriginal communities negotiated the complex circumstances and relationships of colonial invasion in their own unique way. Seven chapters are: the original inhabitants of the Albany region; first contact; from visitors to invaders--the garrison era, 1826-1831; the beginning of free settlement and Aboriginal dispossession at Albany, 1831-1850; the pastoral era, and European attempts to Christianize and civilize Albanys Aboriginal population, 1851-1877; the coming of the Great Southern Railway, 1878-1904; to make provision for the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia, 1905-1926. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
