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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)
  • Themes
    • 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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Tom Lawson is Professor of History at Northumbria University. He is the author of Debates on the Holocaust and The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism.
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