Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838

1788-1838

By: John Connor

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Paperback | 1 June 2002

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From the Swan River to the Hawkesbury, and from the sticky Arnhem Land mangrove to the soft green hills of Tasmania, this book describes the major conflicts fought on the Australian frontier to 1838. Based on extensive research and using overseas frontier wars to add perspective to the Australian experience, The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 will change our view of Australian history forever.

Over the last thirty years, Australians have become increasingly aware that violence accompanied the colonisation of their continent. Historians have shown that the armed conflicts between Aborigines and British settlers and soldiers, though small in scale and sporadic in nature, can truly be described as 'wars'. However, a gap remains at the heart of our understanding of the Australian frontier: the actual warfare, and the weapons and tactics used to fight it, remain poorly understood. The Australian Frontier Wars is the first book-length military history of frontier conflict in Australia.

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John Connor is a PhD student in the School of History, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. A graduate of the Australian National University, the University of Canberra and the University of New South Wales, he has written on many aspects of Australian military history.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Warriors and soldiers	p. 1
Sydney, 1788-1791	p. 22
The Hawkesbury-Nepean River, 1795-1816	p. 35
The Bathurst and Hunter Valley Districts, 1822-1826	p. 53
Northern and Western Australia, 1824-1834	p. 68
Van Diemen's Land, 1826-1831	p. 84
The Liverpool Plains and Port Phillip Districts, 1838	p. 102
Notes	p. 123
Select bibliography	p. 153
Index	p. 166
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