World History
Aboriginal Resistance - This site is a decent timeline of incidents of Aboriginal resistance to European settlement in Australia. It covers 1790-1997. The history begins with accounts of violence and thievery and ends with details of Australian court cases. This shows how the method of resistance shifted over time.
The site notes, "This list has been compiled from quotations in just three published sources, listed at the bottom of this page. There were, and are, many many more instances of resistance, but when this many are seen in such a long list they help to explode the myth that Europeans walked in here and took over without any real resistance. There is strong evidence that there was a long and protracted guerilla war here in Australia using many tactics including destruction of food sources, distruption of lines of supply and communication, spying, negotiating, killing the enemy, stealing of food, not just to deprive their enemy of it, but to provide for their own people in times when energy was used for meetings and fighting instead of hunting and gathering, stealing and learning to use our weapons, humiliating and demoralising the enemy, not cooperating with Europeans, and being generally disruptive. "
The design of the page is bad in my opinion. Putting yellow text on a brown background is not aesthetically pleasing and it hurts my eyes! If you can get past this though there is some good information to find.
- European Discovery And The Colonisation Of Australia
The European Discovery and the Colonisation of Australia is a nice essay on the beginning of European history in Australia. The site was created and is maintained by the Australian government. From the site: The first records of European mariners sailing...
- Ancient Tools Unearthed In Australia
Humanity has been is Australia a long time. And a new find proves that humans were thriving there 35,000 years ago! Yahoo! has a story on it titled Ancient tools unearthed in Australia. The article notes, "Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have...
- Brothers Of The Forest
Brothers of the Forest. I just discovered this great post. I deals with the resistance to Soviet rule in the Baltic states after they were illegally annexed by the Soviet Union in the early 1940s. I did not realize that there was such a long running resistance...
- Examining The American Bill Of Rights Using The Ethic Of Justice
Examining the American Bill of Rights Using the Ethic of Justice. This is another semi-philosophical look at history. The author argues from the perspective of the ethic of justice as postulated by Starratt (1991). It reviews all ten amendments and gives...
- History Of Australia
History of Australia. This is a good overview of the history of Australia. From the site: Australia's aboriginal inhabitants, a hunting-gathering people generally referred to as Aboriginals and Torres Straits Islanders, arrived about 40,000...
World History
Aboriginal Resistance
Aboriginal Resistance - This site is a decent timeline of incidents of Aboriginal resistance to European settlement in Australia. It covers 1790-1997. The history begins with accounts of violence and thievery and ends with details of Australian court cases. This shows how the method of resistance shifted over time.
The site notes, "This list has been compiled from quotations in just three published sources, listed at the bottom of this page. There were, and are, many many more instances of resistance, but when this many are seen in such a long list they help to explode the myth that Europeans walked in here and took over without any real resistance. There is strong evidence that there was a long and protracted guerilla war here in Australia using many tactics including destruction of food sources, distruption of lines of supply and communication, spying, negotiating, killing the enemy, stealing of food, not just to deprive their enemy of it, but to provide for their own people in times when energy was used for meetings and fighting instead of hunting and gathering, stealing and learning to use our weapons, humiliating and demoralising the enemy, not cooperating with Europeans, and being generally disruptive. "
The design of the page is bad in my opinion. Putting yellow text on a brown background is not aesthetically pleasing and it hurts my eyes! If you can get past this though there is some good information to find.
- European Discovery And The Colonisation Of Australia
The European Discovery and the Colonisation of Australia is a nice essay on the beginning of European history in Australia. The site was created and is maintained by the Australian government. From the site: The first records of European mariners sailing...
- Ancient Tools Unearthed In Australia
Humanity has been is Australia a long time. And a new find proves that humans were thriving there 35,000 years ago! Yahoo! has a story on it titled Ancient tools unearthed in Australia. The article notes, "Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have...
- Brothers Of The Forest
Brothers of the Forest. I just discovered this great post. I deals with the resistance to Soviet rule in the Baltic states after they were illegally annexed by the Soviet Union in the early 1940s. I did not realize that there was such a long running resistance...
- Examining The American Bill Of Rights Using The Ethic Of Justice
Examining the American Bill of Rights Using the Ethic of Justice. This is another semi-philosophical look at history. The author argues from the perspective of the ethic of justice as postulated by Starratt (1991). It reviews all ten amendments and gives...
- History Of Australia
History of Australia. This is a good overview of the history of Australia. From the site: Australia's aboriginal inhabitants, a hunting-gathering people generally referred to as Aboriginals and Torres Straits Islanders, arrived about 40,000...