| ISBN |
9781922779052 (paperback) |
| Author |
Horne, Craig (author) |
| Title |
Line of blood : the truth of Alfred Howitt / Craig Horne. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Melbourne, VIC : Melbourne Books, [2023] |
| ©2023. |
| Description |
302 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Line of Blood: The Truth of Alfred Howitt tells the full story of Australia's so-called 'ablest anthropologist'; the botanist, geologist, senior public servant and explorer Alfred Howitt-and ancestor of the author, Craig Horne. That Howitt was an extraordinary polymath is not challenged. And yet, his anthropological conclusions, coupled with his social and political influences, legitimised the murderous advance of white settlement upon the Australia[n] landscape. For Howitt, the 'line of blood' that followed white settlement was nothing more than the iron law of replacement, whereby an 'inferior race' is invariably usurped by a 'superior civilisation'. His disastrously racist ideologies facilitated a pattern of neglect and dismissal of Australia's first nations peoples--the consequences of which reverberate today. -- Publisher. |
| Level |
General. |
| Terms of use |
Culturally sensitive |
| Subjects |
Howitt, A. W.(Alfred William),1830-1908 |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Public opinion -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century |
| Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of |
| Anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography |
| Anthropology -- Australia -- History -- 19th century |
| Anthropology -- Australia -- Research -- History |
| Civil servants -- Australia -- Biography |
| Colonists -- Australia -- Biography |
| Discrimination in science -- Australia |
| Ethnology -- Australia -- History |
| Explorers -- Australia -- Biography |
| Museums -- Australia -- Moral and ethical aspects |
| Naturalists -- Australia -- Biography |
| Racism -- Australia |
| Scientific racism -- Australia |
| Settler colonialism -- Australia -- History |
| Anthropology - Theory and criticism |
| Economic sectors - Pastoral industry |
| Government policy - Assimilation |
| Government policy - Initial period and protectionism |
| History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous |
| Law enforcement - Police - Native police |
| Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes |
| Race relations - Attitudes |
| Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping |
| Race relations - Violent - Genocide |
| Race relations |
| Settlement and contacts - Explorers - Aboriginal guides |
| Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European |
| Settlement and contacts - Explorers |
| Settlement and contacts |
| Australia -- Colonization -- History |
| Australia -- Race relations |
| Australia -- Social conditions |
| Australia, Central -- Discovery and exploration |
| South Australia -- Discovery and exploration |
| Victoria -- Colonization -- History |
| Victoria -- Discovery and exploration |
| Northern Territory - Central NT. |
| Call number |
2023.241 |
