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Edward M. Curr and the tide of history / Sam Furphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Furphy, Samuel, author.
- Series:
- Aboriginal history monograph series ; No 26.
- Aboriginal History Monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Curr, Edward M. (Edward Micklethwaite), 1820-1889.
- Curr, Edward M.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Victoria.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Authors, Australian--Biography.
- Authors, Australian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Edward M. Curr (1820-89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist
- Contents:
- Preliminary; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: 'Claim sunk by pen of a swordsman'; 1. From Sheffield to Van Diemen's Land; 2. 'Troubles of a Beginner'; 3. 'A Station Formed at Tongala'; 4. Claiming the Moira; 5. Decline and Fall; 6. Rebuilding a Reputation; 7. Recollections of Squatting; 8. 'The native is a child'; 9. The Australian Race; 10. Ethnographic Rivalries; 11. 'My sable neighbours'; 12. The Tide of History; Epilogue: 'The Ghost of Edward Curr'; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 14, 2016).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781922144713
- 1922144711
- OCLC:
- 1163853116
- Publisher Number:
- 10.26530/OAPEN_459903
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