{"product_id":"the-australian-wars","title":"The Australian Wars","description":"\u003cp class=\"product-keynote\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Australian Wars\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ebrings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003eIt is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these first, domestic wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Australian Wars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas conceived by Rachel Perkins following her award-winning documentary series produced by Blackfella Films for SBS and edited along with Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds. This is the first book to tell the story of the continental sweep of massacres, guerilla warfare, resistance and the contests of firearms and traditional Aboriginal weaponry as Indigenous nations resisted colonial occupation of their lands, territory by territory. At stake was the sovereignty of an entire country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack and white writers tell the stories of these battles across three crucial time periods, and all the states and territories. It notes the lands that were unconquered, as well as the role of disease, weapons and tactics, and the story of women on the frontier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis history is still alive in those descendants who carry the stories of their ancestors.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Australian Wars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings what for \u003cspan\u003etoo long has been considered the historical past into the present so that we might know the truth of the origins of this nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 416 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"QVMAG Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46109218799660,"sku":"5413","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0385\/6246\/3788\/files\/The_Australian_Wars.webp?v=1788986967","url":"https:\/\/qvmag.shop\/products\/the-australian-wars","provider":"QVMAG Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}