Fatal collisions : the South Australian frontier and the violence of memory / / Robert Foster, Rick Hosking, and Amanda Nettelbeck

• Autore: Foster Robert <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Kent Town, S. Aust., : Wakefield Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Aboriginal Australians - Crimes against - Australia - South Australia; Aboriginal Australians - Australia - South Australia - Social life and customs; Massacres - Australia - South Australia; Frontier and pioneer life - Australia - South Australia; Race relations - Violent; Settlement and contacts - Settlers
• Soggetto geografico: South Australia (SA); South Australia Race relations Historiography
• Altri autori: NettelbeckAmanda HoskingRick
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-162) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- About the authors -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Preface -- Map -- Introduction: The Violence of Memory -- South Australian Settlement and Frontier Violence -- Mythologising the Frontier -- Reconstructing the Maria Massacre -- Regional History and the Rufus River Conflicts -- Recalling the Elliston Incident -- The Legend of James Brown -- Fatal Collisions in the Flinders Ranges -- Logic's Unexpected Celebrity -- Epilogue: Unsettling the past -- Notes -- Introduction: The Violence of Memory -- Reconstructing the Maria Massacre -- Regional History and the Rufus River Conflicts -- Recalling the Elliston Incident -- The Legend of James Brown -- Fatal Collisions in the Flinders Ranges -- Logic's Unexpected Celebrity -- Epilogue: Unsettling the Past -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Wakefield Press.
• Sommario/riassunto: Fatal Collisions is about violence on the South Australian frontier and the ways in which it has been remembered in Anglo-Australian accounts of the past. The stories it tells take place in that fluid zone where history, memory and myth meet in popular consciousness.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fatal collisions
• ISBN: 1-74305-912-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806903103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II