Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers
Subtitle: Conflict, Performance, and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780415744300
Subjects: Australia, history; Australia, social conditions; Pacific area, social conditions; Pacific area, history
Description: "Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It examines cultural 'rituals' and objects; the re-enactments of various events and encounters of exchange, conciliation and diplomacy that occurred on colonial frontiers between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples; commemorations of historic events; and how the histories of colonial conflict and conciliation are politicized in nation-building and national identities"--