Overview

Cross-cultural encounters produce boundaries and frontiers. This book explores the formation, structure, and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. The southern nations of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have a common military heritage as all three united to fight for the British Empire during the Boer and First World Wars. The book focuses on the southern latitudes and especially Australia and Australian historiography. Looking at cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies, the book illuminates the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between settler societies and indigenous groups. It contends that the frontier zone is a hybrid space, a place where both indigene and invader come together on land that each one believes to be their own. The best way to approach the northern Cape frontier zone is via an understanding of the significance of the frontier in South African history. The book explores some ways in which discourses of a natural, prehistoric Aboriginality inform colonial representations of the Australian landscape and its inhabitants, both indigenous and immigrant. The missions of the London Missionary Society (LMS) in Polynesia and Australia are examined to explore the ways in which frontiers between British and antipodean cultures were negotiated in colonial textuality. The role of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand society is possibly the most important and controversial issue facing modern New Zealanders. The book also presents valuable insights into sexual politics, Aboriginal sovereignty, economics of Torres Strait maritime, and nomadism. -- .

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Author:   Lynette Russell ,  Lynette Russell
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780719058592

ISBN 10:   0719058597
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   17 May 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; 1. The space in between: and introduction - Lynette Russell; 2. The Northern Cape frontier zone in South African frontier historiography - Nigel Penn; 3. Time after time: Temporal frontiers and boundaries in colonial images of the Australian landscape - Rod Macnell; 4. Antipodean heathens: The London Missionary society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-1850 - Anna Johnston; 5. Martyrs and messengers: Benjamin Franklin and the American frontier, the Moravians, and the nature of reason - Ron Southern; 6. The fluid frontier: Central Queensland 1845 -1863 - Luke Godwin; 7. 'The final legal frontier': The Treaty of Waitangi and the creation of legal boundaries between Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand society - Grant Morris; 8. Handkerchief diplomacy: E.J. Eyre and sexual politics on the South Australian frontier - Kay Schaffer; 9. Beyond the frontier: possibilities and precariousness along Australia's southern coast - Juile Evans; 10. Torres Strait Islanders and the maritime frontier in early colonial Australia - Ian J. McNiven; 11. Nomadic landscapes and the colonial frontier: The problem of nomadism in German South West Africa - John K. Noyes; 12. All's not quiet on the Western Front - rethinking resistance and frontiers in Aboriginal historiography - Nathan Wolsk; index

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This collection of brief, clear, well-written essays by generally young scholars nicely updates our understanding of colonial frontiers. Choice

"This collection of brief, clear, well-written essays by generally young scholars nicely updates our understanding of colonial frontiers. ""Choice"""

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Lynette Russell is Research Fellow in History at Monash University, Australia

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