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Product Identifiers

PublisherMelbourne University Publishing

ISBN-100522879802

ISBN-139780522879803

eBay Product ID (ePID)22060727792

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleWilliam Cooper : an Aboriginal Life Story

Number of Pages278 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAustralia & New Zealand, Historical, Oceania

Publication Year2023

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorBain Attwood

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal994.042092

SynopsisWilliam Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and celebrated. By carefully reconstructing the historical losses his Yorta Yorta people suffered and endured, William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story reveals how the first seventy years of Cooper's life inspired the remarkable political work he undertook in the 1930s. Focusing on Cooper's most important campaigns-his famous petition to the British king George for an Aboriginal representative in the Australian parliament, his call for a day of mourning after 150 years of colonisation, the walk-off of the Yorta Yorta people from Cumeroogunga reserve in 1939 and his opposition to the establishment of an Aboriginal regiment in the Second World War-this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to have the truth about Australia's black history heard and win representation in Australia's political order.

LC Classification NumberDU116.2