Chapter 2. Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canad... 1 of 9 9/29/2006 10:41 AM Chapter 2. Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia Prev Part 1. Preface, Introduction and Historical Overview Next . Chapter 2. Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia Elizabeth Furniss Table of Contents Frontier studies in academic scholarship Frederick Jackson Turner The New Western History Richard Slotkin and the frontier myth The ‘frontier' in Canadian and Australian anti-native title discourse Australia Canada Conclusion References The idea of the frontier reflects a uniquely colonial view of a place and process of encounter between colonising people
- public understandings
- frontier myth
- frontier as a zone of cultural interaction
- historical review
- frontier
- indigenous peoples
- social scientists
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- history
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