Henry Reynolds is Research Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. His previous books include An Indelible Stain?, Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia's Identity and Drawing the Global Colour Line.

1. Extraordinary encounters; 2. Fledgling settlements; 3. The Black War; 4. An indelible stain?; 5. The triumph of colonization; 6. The politics of Van Diemen's Land; 7. The convict system; 8. Post penal depression; 9. Reform and recovery; 10. Federation and war; 11. Between the wars; 12. Post war Tasmania; 13. Towards the bicentenary.