Out of the Silence. The History and Memory of South Australia's Frontier Wars by Foster, Robert & Nettelbeck, Amanda - 2018

Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 2018. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 233 pages. When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. "Out of the Silence" explores the nature and extent of violence in South Australia in the light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of law and the resonance of that history in the State's social memory. . New. Reprint. Softcover.