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Book SynopsisFocuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Looks at how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in these countries in the twentieth century.
Table of ContentsList of figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Memory and History in Settler Colonialism - Annie E. Coombes
SECTION ONE: Colonial Culture: Institutions and Practices
1. Active Remembrance: Testimony, memoir and the work of reconciliation - Gillian Whitlock
2. Solly Sachs, the Great Trek and Jan van Riebeeck: Settler Pasts and Racial Identities in the Garment Workers Union, 1938 – 1952 - Leslie Witz
3. From Prisoners to Exhibits: Representations of 'Bushmen' of the Northern Cape, 1880-1900 - Martin Legassick
SECTION TWO: The Ordering of Culture : New Nations for Old.
4. Taonga, Marae,Whenua - Negotiating Custodianship: A Maori tribal response to Te Papa: Museum of New Zealand - Paul Tapsell
5. Auckland’s Centrepiece: Unsettled Identities, Unstable Monuments - Leonard Bell
6. Show Times: De-Celebrating the Canadian Nation, Decolonising the Canadian Museum. 1967-1992 - Ruth B. Phillips
7. The Uses of Captain Cook: Early exploration in the public history of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia - Nicholas Thomas
8. Selective Memory: The British Empire Exhibition and National Histories of Art - Christine Boyanoski
SECTION THREE: Engagement and Resistance
9. Challenging the Myth of Indigenous Peoples’ ‘Last Stand’ in Canada and Australia: Public discourse and the conditions of silence - Elizabeth Furniss
10. Being Indian the South African Way: The Development of Indian Identity in 1940s Durban - Parvathi Raman
11. “An Education in White Brutality: Anthony Martin Fernando and Australian Aboriginal rights in global context - Fiona Paisley
SECTION FOUR: New Subjectivities and the Politics of Reconciliation.
12. New World Poetics of Place: Along the Oregon Trail and and in the National Museum of Australia - Deborah Bird Rose
13. Subjectivities of Whiteness - Sarah Nuttall
14. Facing History: Artists’ Pages : Brook Andrew, ‘Ignoratia’; Lisa Reihana, ‘Native Portraits n.19897, Berni Searle, ‘Profile’
Selected bibliography
