Allen & Unwin, Australia, Date: 2013. Softcover. New. AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal IndigenousAs 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. #241222Timothy 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 ...

Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, Date: 2013. General wear to covers. 258 pages with b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2013. Allen & Unwin ISBN 1743313829 9781743313824 [AU]

ISBN10: 1743313829, ISBN13: 9781743313824, [publisher: Allen & Unwin, Sydney] Softcover First Edition xxv, 258pp, index, endnotes, bw ills, maps. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers. The first systematic account of frontier violence in Queensland. Following the tracks of the pastoralists as they moved into new lands across the state in the 19th century the author identifies massacres, poisonings and other incidents including many not previously documented in print. Explores the colonial mindset and explains how the brutal dispossession of Aboriginal landowners continued over decades. Many tens of thousands of Aboriginals were killed on the Queensland frontiers, as well as Europeans in much smaller numbers. Size: 8vo
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Sydney Allen & Unwin 2013 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good 8vo. xxv, 258pp, index, endnotes, bw ills, maps. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers. The first systematic account of frontier violence in Queensland. Following the tracks of the pastoralists as they moved into new lands across the state in the 19th century the author identifies massacres, poisonings and other incidents including many not previously documented in print. Explores the colonial mindset and explains how the brutal dispossession of Aboriginal landowners continued over decades. Many tens of thousands of Aboriginals were killed on the Queensland frontiers, as well as Europeans in much smaller numbers.

Allen & Unwin, Date: 2013. Paperback. New. 172 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. 2013. Allen & Unwin ISBN 1743313829 9781743313824 [GB]

Allen & Unwin 2013 Softcover New 172 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.