Description: Fatal Contact : How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples, Paperback by Dowling, Peter, ISBN 1922464465, ISBN-13 9781922464460, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life historians have acknowledged that introduced diseases caused much sickness and mortality among the Aboriginal populations and were part of the huge population decline following colonisation. But few writers have elaborated further, and much of this history is still missing, even after more than 200 years. Our knowledge and understanding of the biological consequences surrounding the meeting and contact of these two cultures has not yet been fully investigated. What the investigation in Fatal Contact reveals is nothing short of the greatest human tragedy in the long history of Australia. This is a vitally important story that all Australians should read.
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Book Title: Fatal Contact : How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fatal Contact : How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: General, Disease & Health Issues, Australia & New Zealand
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 6 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History, Medical
Author: Peter Dowling
Series: Australian History Ser.
Item Width: 9.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
