Author: Attwood, Bain; Doyle, Helen (with).
Title: Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History.
Description: Melbourne, Carlton Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2009. 1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) & colour text-photos, light foxing top edge, minor foxing front flyleaf, protected in removable archival plastic sleeve. Heavy (1.3 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 415 pp. The fascinating story of the only treaties ever created in Australia. Examines why these agreements were forged, how the Aboriginal people understood their terms, why governments repudiated them, and how settlers claimed to be the rightful owners of the land. The author reveals the ways in which the settler society has endeavoured to make good its act of possession - by repeatedly creating histories that have recalled or repressed the memory of Batman, the treaties, and Aboriginal destruction and dispossession. Also charts how Aboriginal people have unsettled this matter of history through their remembering. ISBN: 9780522851144

Keywords: aborigines, indigenous, australian history, australian government, victoria, melbourne 9780522851144


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