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Killing for country : a family story / David Marr.
Publication details: Wurundjeri Country ; Collingwood, VIC : Black Inc., 2023.Description: xi, 468 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760642730 (paperback)
- Marr, David, 1947- -- Family
- History - Frontier conflict
- History - Frontier conflict - Policing - Native police
- Police -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- Police brutality -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- History -- 19th century
- Land settlement -- Australia -- History
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History -- 19th century
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1900
- Australia -- Race relations -- 19th century
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
- Australia -- Race relations -- History
- Australia -- Colonization -- History
- Biography & Memoir (Australia)
- Modern history (c 1788-1914) (Australia)
- All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
- 994.02 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 994.02 MAR | Issued | 29/04/2024 | 072834 | ||
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 994.02 MAR | Available | 072367 |
Total reserves: 0
Content warning: This book contains material relating to genocide of First Nations people in Australia, and may be upsetting to readers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-451) and index.
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover his forebears served with the Native Police, the most brutal force in Australian history. Killing for Country is the result - a personal history of the Frontier Wars.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
