Additional information
| Weight | 791 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 230 × 150 × 19 mm |
| Page extent | 430 |
| Publication Year | 2023 |
| Subject | History |
| Imprint | Boolarong Press |
How They Fought: Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia’s Frontier Wars
$39.99
Ray Kerkhove
The history of Australia’s Frontier Wars is becoming a hot topic for debate and research. It is now part of our national educational syllabus. However, there are very few books available which explain, in detail, the modes of warfare First Australians applied during the Frontier Wars. How They Fought is written as an introductory guidebook. It is broken into chapters covering organisation, strategies, weaponry, and defences. The book considers both traditional practices and technological and tactical adaptations. To make this complex topic more accessible, How They Fought includes numerous tables, figures and diagrams that illustrate and summarize the contents.
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6 reviews for How They Fought: Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia’s Frontier Wars
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Professor Henry Reynolds (store manager) –
This is an outstanding book: the fruit of years of prodigious research. It will profoundly influence the way we think about Australia’s Frontier Wars and indeed about the whole history of relations between the First Nations and the European settlers … Destined to be an instant classic.
Professor Henry Reynolds,
author of Other Side of the Frontier, Forgotten War and Why Weren’t We Told?
Dr Timothy Bottoms (store manager) –
This is one of the first times that an historian has tried to look at how Aboriginal people
resisted the white settler’s invasion … Kerkhove has been assiduous in citing wide-ranging
examples … a thorough work that puts paid to the idea that Aboriginal Australians merely
wilted in the face of modern firearms and logistics.
Dr Timothy Bottoms,
author of Conspiracy of Silence.
Dr Stephen Gapps (store manager) –
How They Fought is at the forefront of a new military history of resistance warfare and
will be an important resource for Australians to truly comprehend the most significant
conflict of their history, the Australian Wars.
Dr Stephen Gapps,
author of The Sydney Wars and Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War.
Dr Nicholas Clements (store manager) –
An important and much needed study — the first of its kind and hopefully not the last.
Dr Nicholas Clements,
author of The Black War and Tongerlongeter.
Patrick Collins (store manager) –
How They Fought reflects the high quality of research and interpretation that is present in
Ray Kerkhove’s established works. There is no doubt that its unique depth will result in it
becoming a seminal work.
Patrick Collins,
author of Goodbye Bussamarai.
Dan Kelly – Author (store manager) –
This is a substantive work of historical research that rewrites the history of Australia’s Frontier Wars. First Nations people were in no way passive in their quest to retain protection of their country. They did not rollover to the eventual superiority of the European weapons, but fought back using strategy and tactics that had been used in warfare for thousands of years. This is a must read for all Australians.
Dan Kelly
author