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Mapping An Ancestral Past: Discovering The Charles Richards’ Maps Of Aboriginal South-Eastern Australia, Gareth Knapman
Mapping An Ancestral Past: Discovering The Charles Richards’ Maps Of Aboriginal South-Eastern Australia, Gareth Knapman
Gareth Knapman
The Pacificator: Discovering The Lost Bust Of George Augustus Robinson, Gareth Knapman
The Pacificator: Discovering The Lost Bust Of George Augustus Robinson, Gareth Knapman
Gareth Knapman
IN ONE OF THE BACKHANDED compliments for which Mark Twain was famous, he observed ‘in memory of the Greatest man Australasia ever developed or ever will develop, there is a stately monument to George Augustus Robinson, the Conciliator, in – no, it is to another man, I forget his name’.1 As a critic of imperialism and colonialism, Twain saw Robinson as a like-minded being who was on the right side of history. As far as Twain was concerned, this humanitarian hero and critic of colonial expansion was forgotten in the gilded age of 1890s high imperialism. In Twain’s time, stately …
Exchanging Totems: Totemism In Baldwin Spencer's Overseas Exchanges, Gareth Knapman
Exchanging Totems: Totemism In Baldwin Spencer's Overseas Exchanges, Gareth Knapman
Gareth Knapman