Line of blood : the truth of Alfred Howitt
Horne, Craig2023
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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.
Main title:
Line of blood : the truth of Alfred Howitt / by Craig Horne.
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Imprint:
Melbourne, VIC : Melbourne Books, 2023.©2023.
Collation:
302 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
General.
Restrictions on use:
Culturally sensitive
ISBN:
9781922779052 (paperback)
Dewey class:
BIOGRAPHY
Language:
English
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BRN:
421082
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