This article is about the 2013 book. For other uses, see Forgotten war.
Forgotten War is a 2013 book by Australian historian Henry Reynolds concerning the Australian frontier wars, a conflict between the British Empire and settlers on one side and Indigenous Australians on the other.
Forgotten War is a follow-up from Reynolds' previous work, The Other Side of the Frontier which argued British colonisation of Australia had involved significant levels of violence and conflict, the history of which has been largely ignored. Forgotten War is designed as a "thorough and systematic account" of the frontier wars. The book argues there can be no true reconciliation between Indigenous Australians and non-indigenous Australians without acknowledging the history of violence and conflict.[1]
Receptionedit
Historian Raymond Evans, writing for The Sydney Morning Herald described the book as a "closely argued account" which continues Reynolds' tradition of informing the "Australian public of things they need to know, but which many of them do not wish to hear." Evans concluded by praising Forgotten War as "an important and richly textured book - one that deserves wide reading and debate."[2]
In the Sydney Review of Books Anna Clark wrote that "Reynolds is at his heartfelt and persuasive best here, as he explains the shared horrors of the frontier. He does so patiently and methodically, asking: Was it violent? (Yes.) Was it political and territorial? (Yes.) Was it war? (Yes.)"[3]
Awards and recognitionedit
Forgotten War received the Victorian Premier's Award for a Non-Fiction work at the 2014 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards with Reynolds receiving a $A25,000 prize.[4] The judges praised Reynolds' work as "Elegantly written, authoritative and reflective" which "places our history in its contemporary context". The judges also noted that "Timely historical analysis of newly collated and discovered evidence shows that the coming of European settlers to Aboriginal territories was firmly defined as a frontier war by those involved at the time, government officials and settlers alike."[5]
The book was also shortlisted for the 2015 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre and the Queensland Literary Awards History Book Award.
Referencesedit
^"Acknowledging Australia's 'forgotten war'". ABC Radio News. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^Evans, Raymond (10 August 2013). "The fight to remember". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
^Clark, Anna (29 August 2014). "An epic forgetting: Forgotten War & The Black War". Sydney Review of Books. Sydney. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
^Wilson, Ashleigh (28 January 2014). "Recognition for Henry Reynolds at Victorian Premier's Literary Awards". The Australian. Sydney. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
^"Forgotten War". Wheeler Weekly. 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
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