
Colonial Frontiers
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Content
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- General editor's introduction
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Representations of frontiers in settler societies
- The northern Cape frontier zone in South African frontier historiography
- Time after time: temporal frontiers and boundaries in colonial images of the Australian landscape
- Antipodean heathens: the London Missionary Society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-50
- Martyrs and messengers: Benjamin Franklin and the American frontier, the Moravians and the nature of reason
- Part II European responses to frontiers and resistance
- The fluid frontier: Central Queensland 1845-63
- 'The final legal frontier': the Treaty of Waitangi and the creation of legal boundaries between Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand society
- Handkerchief diplomacy: E. J. Eyre and sexual politics on the South Australian frontier
- Beyond the frontier: possibilities and precariousness along Australia's southern coast
- Part III The otherside of the frontier
- Torres Strait Islanders and the maritime frontier in early colonial Australia
- Nomadic landscapes and the colonial frontier: the problem of nomadism in German South West Africa
- All's not quiet on the western front - rethinking resistance and frontiers in Aboriginal historiography
- Select bibliography
- Index
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