Brian Jones
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Cruel, backward, isolationist, and fanatically religious-or independent, resourceful, principled, and courageous? This book is, about the Boers of the Transvaal; it is about how, they were formed, their relentless territorial, expansion, at the expense of indigenous groups in both, the Cape Colony and the Transvaal, their struggle for distinctiveness and independence against Imperial and African pressures, the state that they, carved out for themselves,...
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Less than sixty-years after the ships of the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove, John Eyre wrote that Indigenous Australians were 'strangers in their own land'. Also, he wrote that 'hungry, and famished, they wander about begging'. How did the lives of Indigenous Australians deteriorate so quickly?
With this question in mind, Happy People traces the perspectives of settlers on Indigenous Australians, from the first settlement during 1788 until the...