The last man : a British genocide in Tasmania /

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specif...

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Main Author: Lawson, Tom.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
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