| Description |
233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Part 1: 'The war between the races' -- Foundations -- British subjects or enemy aliens? -- 'Our declared enemies': frontier warfare -- The trials of the criminal justice system -- 'The secrecy with these transactions have been cloaked': The culture of the settler frontier -- 'The natural working of an unsound system': Administrative responses to frontier violence -- 'These war-like preparations': the Mounted police and the tyranny of distance -- Part 2: Negotiating the past -- Paving the way back -- The Great Australian whispering -- Placing the past in the present |
| 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 in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that history in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten? And what might this reveal about our understanding of the nation's history and its legacies in the present?" -- cover description |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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History (Australasia) |
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Indigenous peoples (Australasia) |
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Modern history (c 1788-1914) (Australasia) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-225) and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General |
| Notes |
Also available in electronic version via the Internet |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system -- Australia -- South Australia -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- South Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- South Australia -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- South Australia.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- South Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
South Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100617 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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South Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100617 -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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South Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100617 -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
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South Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100617
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| Author |
Nettelbeck, Amanda.
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| ISBN |
9781743050392 (paperback) |
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