Bain Attwood

Biography

Bain Attwood was educated at the University of Waikato, the University of Auckland and La Trobe University, and is currently Professor in the School of Philosphical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University. He has held fellowships at the Australian National University and the University of Cambridge, and the Visiting Professorship of Australian Studies at Harvard University.

He has published widely in the history of colonialism. His monographs include The Making of the Aborigines (1989), Rights for Aborigines (2003), Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History (2005), Possession: Batman’s Treaty and the Matter of History (2009), Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People (2020), and William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story (2021). He is the co-author of The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution (2007), and the co-editor of several books including Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience (2003) and Protection and Empire: A Global History (2018).

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