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Frontier conflict : the Australian experience Edited by Bain Attwood and S. G. Foster Published by National Museum of Australia (2003) |
Book description
While many books have been written about Australia's contribution to overseas
wars, relatively little has been said about armed conflict within Australia. Yet
Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was often the scene
of conflict, as Europeans seized the land and its resources, and its original
owners fought back. The extent of the conflict and the degree of violence
are matters of much controversy.
This book, based on a forum held at the National Museum of Australia, presents
a series of essays by leading contributors to the debate. From different
historical and political perspectives, they address several key questions:
What happened? How do we know? How do we remember? How do
we tell? Their answers, taken together, comprise a major contribution
to the study of cross-cultural relations in Australia's past and valuable background
for anyone who wishes to understand relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
Australians today.
About the Author
Bain Attwood is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, the Australian National University, and Associate Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University.
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