ROBERT FOSTER AND AMANDA NETTELBECK - Wakefield Press

ContentsIntroduction 1Part 1‘The war between the races’Chapter 1 Foundations 13Chapter 2 British subjects or enemy aliens? 21Chapter 3 ‘Our declared enemies’: frontier warfare 40Chapter 4 The trials of the criminal justice system 55Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Part 2‘The secrecy with which these transactionshave been cloaked’: The culture of the settler frontier 78‘The natural working of an unsound system’:Administrative responses to frontier violence 87‘These war-like preparations’:the Mounted Police and the tyranny of distance 100Negotiating the PastChapter 8 Paving the way back 131Chapter 9 The Great Australian whispering 142Chapter 10 Placing the past in the present 167Conclusion 181Notes 187Bibliography 211Index 227