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The Last Man - A British Genocide in Tasmania (Hardcover)
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The Last Man - A British Genocide in Tasmania (Hardcover)
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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 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
surviving indigenous community had been deported to Flinders
Island, where the British government took a keen interest in the
attempt to transform them into Christians and Englishmen in a
campaign of cultural genocide. Lawson also illustrates the ways in
which the destruction of indigenous Tasmanians was reflected in
British culture - both at the time and since - and how it came to
play a key part in forging particular versions of British imperial
identity. Laments for the lost Tasmanians were a common theme in
literary and museum culture, and the mistaken assumption that
Tasmanians were doomed to complete extinction was an important part
of the emerging science of human origins. By exploring the memory
of destruction, The Last Man provides the first comprehensive
picture of the British role in the destruction of the Tasmanian
Aboriginal population.
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