• Source: The Last of the Tasmanians

The Last of the Tasmanians; or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land is an 1870 work of history and anthropology by James Bonwick which chronicles and attempts to explain the demographic decline of the aboriginal Tasmanians in the face of European settlement in the 19th century. The book is illuminated with numerous illustrations and coloured engravings.




Contents


Chapter I. Voyagers Tales of the Tasmanians
Chapter II. The Black War
Chapter III. Cruelties to the Blacks
Chapter IV. Outrages of the Blacks
Chapter V. The Line
Chapter VI. Capture Parties
Chapter VII. George Augustus Robinson, the Conciliator
Chapter VIII. Flinders Island
Chapter IX. Oyster Cove
Chapter X. The Sealers
Chapter XI. Half-castes
Chapter XII. Native Rights
Chapter XIII. Civilization
Chapter XIV. Decline




Plagiarised edition


A plagiarised edition of Bonwick's work was printed at Sydney by the Shakespeare Head Press in 1973 and attributed to Michael David Davies. The prose was slightly modernised and the work concluded with a new chapter by Davies which speculated on the origins of the indigenous Tasmanians.




Bibliography


Ferguson, John Alexander (1963). Bibliography of Australia. Vol. 5: 1851–1900 (A–G). Sydney: Angus and Robertson Ltd. pp. 373 (no. 7232).
Lawson, Tom (2014). The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania. Great Britain: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. pp. 8–9, 36, 129, 154–7, 166, 169.
Windschuttle, Keith (2005). The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Vol. 1: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847. Sydney: Macleay Press. pp. 20, 26–7, 36–7, 54, 101, 127, 149, 168, 230, 281, 284, 376.




Links


"The last of the Tasmanians, or, The black war of Van Diemen's Land / by James Bonwick". National Library of Australia.
"The last of the Tasmanians; or, The black war of Van Diemen's Land. / London, Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870". Trove.
"The last of the Tasmanians / [by] David Davies". National Library of Australia.
"The last of the Tasmanians / [by] David Davies". Trove.
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