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Police of the Pastoral Frontier. Native Police 1849-59.
by Skinner, L. E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702209775
- ISBN 13
- 9780702209772
- Seller
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Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1975. x, 455pp, index, bibliography, appendices, maps, bw ills. Green cloth in jacket. Minor foxing to page edges, slight fading to spine.The Native Police Force of trained aborigines was a new concept which combined European weapons and discipline with the highly developed Aboriginal bush skill and cunning. Previously attacking tribes had been able to vanish into the bush but the native troopers were able to track them, often abandoning horses and clothes to do so. Among the accounts in the book is the notorious Hornet Bank massacre, in which eleven people including a widow and her 8 children were killed by the fierce Dawson Creek tribe. It is a story of misunderstanding, bungling, and violent reprisals and it clearly reveals the humanity and inhumanity of administrators, police, settlers, and Aborigines. Very important book in the history of law enforcement in Australia (particularly Queensland) and an early time of Aboriginal participation in European civilisation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 053663
- Title
- Police of the Pastoral Frontier. Native Police 1849-59.
- Author
- Skinner, L. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0702209775
- ISBN 13
- 9780702209772
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- St. Lucia, Qld
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Police Queensland Aborigines Aboriginal Law
- Bookseller catalogs
- Language, Dictionaries, Trivia, Law; True Crime; Australiana; Australian Aborigines; Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology;
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
I carry a general stock of approx 70000 titles of which only a small percentage is online. Viewing at my Ashmore bookrooms is welcome by appointment. While not specializing I have a good selection of art, natural history, military and surfing in stock. I also have many other non-fiction subjects, as well as approx 10000 paperback fiction titles on hand.
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