Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa

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Annie E. Coombes
Manchester University Press, Mar 17, 2006 - History - 274 pages
Focusing on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, this book investigates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologized, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century through monuments, exhibitions and images.
 

Contents

Introduction page
1
Artists pages
13
testimony memoir and the work
24
settler
45
representations of Bushmen
63
unsettled identities unstable
100
decelebrating the Canadian nation decolonising
121
early exploration in the public
140
the British Empire Exhibition
156
Challenging the myth of indigenous peoples last stand
172
the development
193
Anthony Martin Fernando
209
along the Oregon Trail
228
Subjectivities of whiteness Sarah Nuttall
245
Select bibliography263
263
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Annie E. Coombes is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London'

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