The history of Australia will be discussed through the relationship between the aboriginal people and the colonists, from the arrival of the first British in 1788 until the appointment of Linda Burney, the first Aboriginal woman elected to the House of Representatives in 2016.
The course will examine the first European encounters with Australia and its Indigenous people while colonization of the land by the British in the late eighteenth century reveals how the realities of a convict society shaped the nation’s development.
It will focus in particular on the role that indigenous people played in indigenous and settler societies, but also in the economy, education, women's emancipation and activism until the beginning of the 20th century, from colonization to independence.
- Enseignant: Demaubus Thierry