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Loading... Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia (edition 1985)by Don Watson
Work InformationCaledonia Australis : Scottish highlanders on the frontier of Australia by Don Watson
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An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities- objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout of another people, the Kurnai of Gippsland in south-eastern Australia. And prominent among those who did the routing were emigrant Highlanders like the explorer Angus McMillan. Don Watson writes about the frontier on which those two cultures met. It is a story full of tragic ironies and myths which linger to this day. First published in 1984 and recognised as a significant revisionist work, Caledonia Australisis all the more intriguing and instructive now as debate continues to rage over Aboriginal native title, practical reconciliation and the way Australian history should be written, taught and understood. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)994.560049163History and Geography Oceania and elsewhere Australia Victoria GippslandLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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