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Killing for country : a family story / David Marr.
Van Pelt Library HV8280.A5 N66 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marr, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--Australia--History--19th century.
- Police.
- Police brutality--Australia--History--19th century.
- Police brutality.
- Aboriginal Australians--History--19th century.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--History--19th century.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
- Australia--History--1788-1900.
- Australia.
- Australia--Race relations--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 468 pages : illustrations (black & white), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc, [2023]
- Summary:
- A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover his forebears served with the Native Police, the most brutal force in Australian history. Killing for Country is the result, a personal history of the Frontier Wars. Marr brings his experience as an investigative journalist, an award-winning biographer and political analyst to the story of a colonial family that seized hundreds of thousands of acres of land and led Aboriginal troopers into bloody massacres in the most violent years of the Native Police. Killing for Country is a unique history of the making of Australia, a richly detailed and gripping family saga of fortunes made and lost, of politics and power in the colonial world, and the violence let loose by squatters and their London bankers as they began their long war for the possession of this country, a contest still unresolved in today's Australia.
- Contents:
- Mr Jones. Cross-breeding; Lords of the soul; Race and faith; Botany Bay tactics; Deaths and arrangements; The creeks; His gimlet eye; Moving north
- Edmund B. Uhr. Valley of the shadow; Killers of Mr Uhr; Troublesome bush lawyer; My rogues; To the island; Retribution alone; Queensland
- Reg & Darcy. Pro christo et patria; Valley of lagoons; At last a perch; Troublemaker in a shanty town; No better man; Blaze of glory; The reaper; D'Arcy in his prime; The last chapter
- Afterword: family business.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781760642730
- 1760642738
- OCLC:
- 1385403395
- Publisher Number:
- 99996065887
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