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Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland’s Frontier Killing Times

Bottoms, Timothy
ISBN: 9781743313824 Category:

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AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

 As Europeans moved into new lands in Queensland in the 19th century, violent encounters with local Aboriginals mostly followed. Drawing on extensive original research, Timothy Bottoms tells the story of the most violent frontier in Australian colonial history.

xxv, 258 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. First Edition. #170922

Timothy Bottoms is a Cairns-based historian and author of Djabugay Country and A History of Cairns.

Ethnology — Queensland.  |  Ethnology — Australia.  |  Aboriginal Australians — Queensland — History.  |  Aboriginal Australians — Wars.  |  Government, Resistance to — Queensland.  |  Frontier and pioneer life — Queensland.  |  Law enforcement – Police – Native police.  |  Land rights – Excisions and leases – Pastoral leases.  |  Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900.  |  Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1788-1850.  |  Settlement and contacts – Settlers.  |  Queensland — Social life and customs — 20th century.  |  Australia — Colonial influence.  |  Australia — History — 20th century.  |  Australia — Social life and customs — 20th century.  |  Queensland — Colonial influence.  |  Queensland — History — 20th century.  |  Queensland — Colonization — History.  |  Queensland — Race relations — History.  |  Hornet Bank (SW Qld SG55-08)  |  Cullin-La-Ringo (E Qld SF55-15)  |  Tully (NE Qld SE55-06)  |  Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)  |  Australian

Additional Information

Author Bottoms, Timothy
Number of pages258
PublisherAllen & Unwin, Australia
Year Published2013
Binding Type

Softcover
Book Condition

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