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Bernard Porter: Genocide in Tasmania, 31 July 2014
The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania
by Tom Lawson.
Tauris, 263 pp., £25, January 2014,978 1 78076 626 3 Show More
by Tom Lawson.
Tauris, 263 pp., £25, January 2014,
“... kindly. One famous proclamation (reproduced in Lawson’s book) was issued in 1830 by Governor George Arthur in comic-strip form, and showed, in its last frame, an Englishman being hanged for shooting a native (though there’s no evidence that I’ve seen that this ever happened). The problem was that Britain didn’t have the means to enforce ... ”