| Description |
956 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Part A. Nineteenth Century, Aboriginal Missions in Eastern Australia: 1. The shock of the new: early New South Wales and Aboriginal missions; 2. The destruction of the old: civilisation and mission permeate north and south; 3. The hobbling of the remnant: protectorates, reserves and missions; 4. The cries of the compassionate: key nineteenth century missionaries in eastern Australia -- Part B. Nineteenth Century, Aboriginal Missions Extend West, South and North: 5. The repetition of a violent pattern: Western Australian society and Aboriginal missions; 6. The failure of noble sentiments: South Australian society and early Aboriginal missions; 7. The violence of the frontier: the remote centre and west and Aboriginal missions; 8. The isolation of the tropics: first missions in the Northern Territory and north Queensland -- Part C. Twentieth Century, Aborigines and the Church in Settled Australia: 9. The shielding of the dying: Aboriginal protection and the churches in settled Australia; 10. The breaking of bonds: the struggle for Aboriginal personhood in settled Australia -- Part D. Twentieth Century, From Mission to Church in Traditional Aboriginal Communities: 11. The reawakening of a vision: a twentieth-century case-study: Northern Territory CMS missions; 12. The emergence of a new age: World War II, traditional Aboriginal society and missions; 13. The voices of freedom and hope: the 'new look' traditional culture and the church |
| Summary |
Missionaries and their effects on Aboriginal people; treatment of Aborigines by white settlers and Aborigines; church and minorities; assimilation; Missionaries attitudes to Aboriginal culture and religion; pastoralists attitudes to missions; role of police and Protection Boards; Moravian Church; Lutheran Church; Church of England; Methodist Church; Jesuit Order; Wesleyan Missionary Society; United Aborigines Mission; Aborigines Friends Association; Aborigines Inland Mission; Church Missionary Society; Methodist Church; land rights; human rights |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians - Missions - History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-933) |
| Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station.
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Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History.
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Church and minorities -- Australia -- History.
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Missions -- Australia.
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| LC no. |
91182863 |
| ISBN |
0745914969 (Lion) |
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0867600950 (paperback) |
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