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Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land by Sven Lindqvist, Sarah Death

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duszek49's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

heresthepencil's review against another edition

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hopeful informative

4.0

absolutely feels like the other side of the coin of "exterminate all the brutes", and i highly recommend reading them both close together. personally, i think this one is better, which seems to be putting me in the minority of reviewers.

focuses heavily on the anthropology side of things. and anyone who spent any time studying that field knows that the forefathers were all ridiculous racist white men who didn't so much try to learn about other societies, as prove their own theories on said societies, which they mostly based on, i don't know, vibes. lindqvist does a great job of showing us all the big names of early anthro & their ideas, and then undermining them in a few succinct sentences.

it's definitely a book on genocide, with all the questions that brings. is genocide carried out only by direct violence? what about bringing new diseases, striping the peoples of their culture & resources, brainwashing them into hating their very roots?

greta5's review against another edition

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adventurous dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

tefcortesch's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

I learned a lot from the history of Australia and understood the horrible genocide that occurred against the aborigines. A must read about Australian history!

sonicdonutflour's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Very intense, unsparing look at colonial crimes in what is known as ‘Australia’ as well as some decent thinking on justice/repayment for crimes of the past.