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100958-Australia and the World | Urban Studies

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Australia and the World (100958)

   

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This thesis mainly debates Australia’s genocide and gives an insight into it. It basically talks about Tasmanian history, and the question that the writer proposes through this is whether the treatment that happened with Tasmanian history all through the British colonization has constituted genocide. This book shows the murdering stream of the world. The thesis of the Tasmanian genocide has been presented as the history of wars.

100958-Australia and the World | Urban Studies

   

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Australia and the World (100958)

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1URBAN STUDIESThe thesis of this essay mainly debates about Australia’s genocide and gives an insightabout it. It basically talks about the Tasmanian history and the question that the writer proposesthrough this is whether the treatment that happened with Tasmanian history all through theBritish colonization that has constituted genocide (Taylor, 2013). This book shows the murderingstream of the world. The British colonization almost destroyed all the indigenous organizationand it widely shows the conflict between them. Henry Reynolds have acknowledged this andbrought out the topic to the people. However there are debates that whether the genocide wasdone intentionally, though many genocide scholars believe that this genocide was a condignjudgment. The writer in his book gives a fact which seeks to again write about their nation’sfoundation. This war took place on the Australian soil. British declared this war for the first time.The first Tasmanian were extremely driven and committed about their ancestral land that none ofthe obstacles could have stopped their determination. The thesis of Tasmanian genocide has beenpresented as the history of wars. The genocide is termed as a political notion by misinterpretingthe understanding of history. Reynolds has written about this forgotten war with astraightforward remark. Reynolds spoke about the injustice that happened with Aboriginal tribesin Tasmania and however the attitude in Tasmania remained unaffected. Reynolds remarks thatthere are about 5000 memorials all over Australia in order to remember soldiers who fought inthis war (Pihama, 2014). Another key point is that Reynolds mentions that around 5000 settlergot killed on this war. Even though all of them were not soldiers like the indigenous warriorswho fought as an alternative to guerilla strategy and horror, who attacked several houses andkilled families in respect to their own benefits . The Black Wars which took place in Tasmaniahas an agenda, they were fighting for Australia. In 1835, the population of Aboriginals has vastly
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