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Autore |
Pascoe Bruce <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Convincing ground [[electronic resource] ] : learning to fall in love with your country / / Bruce Pascoe |
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Canberra, : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of - History |
Aboriginal Australians - Government relations - History |
Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity |
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Australia Race relations History |
Australia Colonization History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- One Franks is Dead -- Two History, How it Starts -- Three The Lakes -- Four Lady Macbeth's Clean Hands -- Five The Lie of the Land -- Six The Psychology of the Frontier -- Seven Brave Explorers -- Eight Lake Corangamite -- Nine The Raised Sword -- Ten The Great Australian Forge -- Eleven The Great Australian Face -- Twelve Golden Boy -- Thirteen Don't Mention the War -- Fourteen The Language of War -- Fifteen The Language of Resistance -- Sixteen Native Born -- Seventeen True Hunter -- Eighteen Germaine to the Problem -- Nineteen The Whispering Land -- Twenty Elbows on the Bar -- Appendices -- I. Wathaurong Language Sample -- II. Place names of the Geelong-Ballarat Region -- III. Jillong Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts and local histories -- Major references -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Convincing ground is a wide-ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community.Pascoe ranges across the national contemporary political stage, critiquing the great |
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