Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

While many books have been written about Australia's contribution to overseas wars, relatively little has been said about armed conflict within Australia. Yet Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was often the scene of conflict, as Europeans seized the land and its resources, and its original owners fought back. The extent of conflict and the degree of violence are matters of much controversy. This book presents a series of essays by leading contributors to the debate. The different historical and political perspectives make a major contribution to the study of cross-cultural relations in Australia's past and provide valuable background for anyone who wishes to understand relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians today.

Author Bio

Bain Attwood is an associate professor of history at Monash University in Melbourne and an adjunct professor at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University-Canberra. He is the author or editor of many books in the field of Aboriginal history. S. G. Foster is an adjunct professor at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University-Canberra. He is executive editor of the 11-volume series Australians: A Historical Library and is currently on the editorial board of "reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia."