Blood Gold (eBook)

Native Police, Bushrangers, and Law and Order on the Goldfields

Marji Hill (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
142 Seiten
The Prison Tree Press (Verlag)
978-0-6454834-9-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Gold! Hidden Stories of Australia's Past, Book 5 Gold discoveries in Australia created an unprecedented population explosion and with it came crime and lawlessness. In Blood Gold Marji Hill, author of more than 70 publications, tells:* About law and order on the goldfields. * How gold was a target for theft.* How the Native Police were used to enforce law and order.* How with the expanding frontier the Native Police were used to "e;disperse"e; First Nations people from their lands to make way for colonisation.* How the Native Police were a symbol of white colonial attitudes towards First Nations people.* About Australia's first Chinese bushranger, and* Stories of some female bushrangers.If you relish the uncovering of hidden stories, iconic episodes or truth-telling to do with Australia's past, then this beautifully illustrated book and the others in the series are for you.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Gold! Hidden Stories of Australia's Past
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aboriginal Native Police • Aborigines and crime • Australian Aboriginal books • Australian Aboriginal history • Australian Aborigines • Australian Bushrangers • Australian goldfield stories • Australian gold stories • Australia's Indigenous people • Books about gold in Australia • Books on Indigenous Australians • colonialism in Australia • Discovery of gold in Australia • First Nations stories Australia • First Nations true stories • First Nations truth-telling • gold and Aboriginal Australians • history of Aboriginal Australian people • history of gold in Australia • Indigenous Australia books • Indigenous Australian history • Indigenous Australians • Indigenous Australian stories • Law and order Australia • Law and order books • Lawlessness in Australia • Queensland's Native Police • Stories of Aboriginal heroes • Stories of Aboriginal people • stories of Australian Aboriginal people • Truth-telling in Australia
• ISBN-10: 0-6454834-9-4 / 0645483494
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6454834-9-9 / 9780645483499