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Rivers and Resilience traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from the early periods of British and Irish settlement to the present. It offers a dramatically new approach to Aboriginal history in an urban setting in Australia. Leading historians investigate the continuities and changes experienced by Aboriginal communities in this densely settled suburban area where the continued presence of Aboriginal people, including traditional owners, is largely - and wrongly - ignored.
About the author
Heather Goodall grew up at Padstow near Salt Pan Creek on the Georges
River and has worked closely with Aboriginal people in numerous innovative
social histories. She is the author of Invasion to Embassy: Land in
Aboriginal Politics in NSW, which won the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian
History in 1997 and, with Isabel Flick, a senior Aboriginal activist
from north-western NSW, Isabel Flick: The Many Lives of an Extraordinary
Aboriginal Woman, which was awarded the Magarey Medal for Australian
women's biography in 2005. Heather is co-editor of two international
volumes on environmental history: Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global
Memories of Environmental Injustice (2006) and Waters, Sovereignty and
Borders in Asia and Oceania (2008). She is currently Professor of History at
UTS where she is researching the relations between Australia's people and
environments with those around the Indian Ocean region.
Summary
Traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from the early periods of British and Irish settlement to this day. This title offers an approach to Aboriginal history in an urban setting in Australia.
