Serving Our Country – Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship

Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship\nby Joan Beaumont\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Joan Beaumont\nTitle: Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Australasian and Pacific history\nPublisher: NewSouth Publishing\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781742235394\nISBN-10: 1742235395\nRRP: \u00A322.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAfter decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people\u2019s participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full ci.