Out of the Silence [electronic resource] : The history and memory of South Australia's frontier wars
Foster, Robert2012
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"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?"
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Author:
Foster, Robert, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : , 2012
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781743051726
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English
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433921
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