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Australia’s First and Most Important War
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Reynolds, H, Australia's First and Most Important War, Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography, Springer International Publishing, S Pearson, JL Holloway, and RM Thackway (ed), Cham, pp. 177-186. ISBN 978-3-319-73407-1 (2018) [Research Book Chapter]
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Copyright 2018 Springer International Publishing AG
DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73408-8_12
Abstract
Geography has always featured in Australian historical writing. This was particularly
so in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Exploration was
at the centre of popular history and featured in school text books. The voyages of
European seamen were traced on maps of the continent. They were followed by the
expeditions of the inland explorers. Atlases used in schools until the 1950's contained
a series of maps depicting the progress of the settler's advance into Aboriginal
Australia. On these maps black was succeeded by triumphant yellow until the last
unknown regions were traversed by the intrepid frontiersmen. The explorers were
succeeded in popular histories by the pioneers who were confronted by the land
itself. They endured flood, drought and fire and in doing so developed characteristics
which came to be seen as distinctly Australian. In popular literature, it was the
Outback-not the coastal cities-which shaped the national ethos. Both sides of
politics found their rural heroes. The (conservative) right celebrated the squatter.
The (progressive or liberal) left venerated the semi-nomadic tribe of bush workers,
shearers and their precocious unionism.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | history, Australia |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
Objective Field: | Understanding Australia's past |
UTAS Author: | Reynolds, H (Professor Henry Reynolds) |
ID Code: | 130337 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2019-01-21 |
Last Modified: | 2019-02-05 |
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