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Author:   Annie Coombes ,  Andrew Thompson ,  John MacKenzie ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780719071683

ISBN 10:   0719071682
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   02 March 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Memory and History in Settler Colonialism - Annie E. Coombes SECTION ONE: Colonial Culture: Institutions and Practices 1. Active Remembrance: Testimony, memoir and the work of reconciliation - Gillian Whitlock 2. Solly Sachs, the Great Trek and Jan van Riebeeck: Settler Pasts and Racial Identities in the Garment Workers Union, 1938 – 1952 - Leslie Witz 3. From Prisoners to Exhibits: Representations of 'Bushmen' of the Northern Cape, 1880-1900 - Martin Legassick SECTION TWO: The Ordering of Culture : New Nations for Old. 4. Taonga, Marae,Whenua - Negotiating Custodianship: A Maori tribal response to Te Papa: Museum of New Zealand - Paul Tapsell 5. Auckland’s Centrepiece: Unsettled Identities, Unstable Monuments - Leonard Bell 6. Show Times: De-Celebrating the Canadian Nation, Decolonising the Canadian Museum. 1967-1992 - Ruth B. Phillips 7. The Uses of Captain Cook: Early exploration in the public history of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia - Nicholas Thomas 8. Selective Memory: The British Empire Exhibition and National Histories of Art - Christine Boyanoski SECTION THREE: Engagement and Resistance 9. Challenging the Myth of Indigenous Peoples’ ‘Last Stand’ in Canada and Australia: Public discourse and the conditions of silence - Elizabeth Furniss 10. Being Indian the South African Way: The Development of Indian Identity in 1940s Durban - Parvathi Raman 11. “An Education in White Brutality: Anthony Martin Fernando and Australian Aboriginal rights in global context - Fiona Paisley SECTION FOUR: New Subjectivities and the Politics of Reconciliation. 12. New World Poetics of Place: Along the Oregon Trail and and in the National Museum of Australia - Deborah Bird Rose 13. Subjectivities of Whiteness - Sarah Nuttall 14. Facing History: Artists’ Pages : Brook Andrew, ‘Ignoratia’; Lisa Reihana, ‘Native Portraits n.19897, Berni Searle, ‘Profile’ Selected bibliography -- .

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Annie E. Coombes is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck College, London

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