Out of the Silence [electronic resource] : The history and memory of South Australia's frontier wars

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia--History, Military--1788-1851.

Great Britain. -- Army--History--18th century.

South Australia--Genealogy.

South Australia--History--Sources.

Local Subjects:

Australia--History, Military--1788-1851.

Great Britain. -- Army--History--18th century.

South Australia--Genealogy.

South Australia--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2012.

Summary:

When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would be as much 'under the safeguard of the law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the privileges of British subjects'. But could colonial governments provide the protection that was promised? 'Out of the Silence' explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers i

Contents:

Cover; About the authors; Title page; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map; Introduction; PART 1: 'THE WAR BETWEEN THE RACES'; Chapter 1: FOUNDATIONS; Chapter 2: BRITISH SUBJECTS OR ENEMY ALIENS?; Chapter 3: 'OUR DECLARED ENEMIES'; Chapter 4: THE TRIALS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM; Chapter 5: 'THE SECRECY WITH WHICH THESE TRANSACTIONS HAVE BEEN CLOAKED ...': THE CULTURE OF THE SETTLER FRONTIER; Chapter 6: 'THE NATURAL WORKING OF AN UNSOUND SYSTEM': ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSES TO FRONTIER VIOLENCE; Chapter 7: 'THESE WAR-LIKE PREPARATIONS': THE MOUNTED POLICE AND THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE

PART 2: NEGOTIATING THE PASTChapter 8: PAVING THE WAY BACK; Chapter 9: THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN WHISPERING; Chapter 10: PLACING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Images; Wakefield Press

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-74305-172-7

1-74305-040-2