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Fatal collisions : the South Australian frontier and the violence of memory / Robert Foster, Rick Hosking, and Amanda Nettelbeck.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Foster, Robert, 1958-
Contributor:
Nettelbeck, Amanda.
Hosking, Rick.
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
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E
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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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