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Fatal collisions : the South Australian frontier and the violence of memory / Robert Foster, Rick Hosking, and Amanda Nettelbeck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, Robert, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Crimes against--Australia--South Australia.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--South Australia--Social life and customs.
- Massacres--Australia--South Australia.
- Massacres.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--South Australia.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- South Australia--Race relations--Historiography.
- South Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fatal Collisions is about violence on the South Australian frontier and the ways in which it has been remembered in Anglo-Australian accounts of the past. The stories it tells take place in that fluid zone where history, memory and myth meet in popular consciousness.
- Contents:
- Cover
- About the authors
- Title page
- Imprint
- Contents page 1
- Contents page 2
- Preface
- Map
- Introduction: The Violence of Memory
- South Australian Settlement and Frontier Violence
- Mythologising the Frontier
- Reconstructing the Maria Massacre
- Regional History and the Rufus River Conflicts
- Recalling the Elliston Incident
- The Legend of James Brown
- Fatal Collisions in the Flinders Ranges
- Logic's Unexpected Celebrity
- Epilogue: Unsettling the past
- Notes
- Epilogue: Unsettling the Past
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Wakefield Press.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-162) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-74305-912-4
- OCLC:
- 55641452
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