Serving our country : Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship
Beaumont, Joan2018
Books, Manuscripts
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman, Alison Cadzow, and others, reveal the courage, resilience, and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia.
Main title:
Serving our country : Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship / edited by Joan Beaumont and Allison Cadzow.
Author:
Beaumont, Joan, editorCadzow, Allison, editor
Imprint:
Sydney, New South Wales : NewSouth Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
xv, 445 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plates, photographs ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes appendices and notes.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Tertiary/Undergraduate.General.
ISBN:
9781742235394
Dewey class:
355.008999
Language:
English
Subject:
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights -- HistoryCivil rights -- AustraliaCitizenship -- AustraliaSouth African War, 1899-1902 -- Participation, Aboriginal AustralianWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Aboriginal AustralianAustralia -- Armed Forces -- Torres Strait IslandersAustralia -- Armed Forces -- Aboriginal Australians
BRN:
22505
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