Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800

The fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians.

Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for Englishmen by God. However, for its original inhabitants this country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle.

Richard Broome tells the story of the impact of European ideas, guns, killer microbes and a pastoral economy ...