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London, England: London, UK: I B Tauris & Co., 2014, 1st Edition, First Printing , 2014. -----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, looks new, 263 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, ---"Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide at the hands of the British is virtually forgotten today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider British society in this genocide. It positions the destruction as a consequence of British policy, and ideology in the region. Tom Lawson shows how Britain practised cultural destruction and then came to terms with and evaded its genocidal imperial past. Although the introduction of European diseases undoubtedly contributed to the decline in the indigenous population, Lawson shows that the British government…
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The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania Hardcover - 2014 - 3rd Edition
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- Title The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania
- Author Tom Lawson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 3rd
- Edition 3
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher I. B. Tauris & Company, London
- Date 2014-03-27
- ISBN 9781780766263 / 1780766262
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.1 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.79 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Australian
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Colonies - Race relations, Tasmania - History - 1803-1900
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014472442
- Dewey Decimal Code 994.0
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I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINALÂ Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide one of the earliest of the modern era is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider British society in this genocide. It positions the destruction as a consequence of British policy, and ideology in the region. Tom Lawson shows how Britain practised cultural destruction and then came to terms with and evaded its genocidal imperial past. Although the introduction of European diseases undoubtedly contributed to the decline in the indigenous population, Lawson shows that the British government supported what was effectively the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania - particularly in the period of martial law in 1828-1832. By 1835 the vast majority of the…
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