Killing for country, a family story, David Marr
Type
Label
Killing for country, a family story, David Marr
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Killing for country
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
David Marr
Sub title
a family story
Summary
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover his forebears served with the Native Police, the most brutal force in Australian history. Killing for Country is the result - a personal history of the Frontier Wars. Marr brings his experience as an investigative journalist, an award-winning biographer and political analyst to the story of a colonial family that seized hundreds of thousands of acres of land and led Aboriginal troopers into bloody massacres in the most violent years of the Native Police. Killing for Country is a unique history of the making of Australia - a richly detailed and gripping family saga of fortunes made and lost, of politics and power in the colonial world, and the violence let loose by squatters and their London bankers as they began their long war for the possession of this country - a contest still unresolved in today's Australia
Target audience
adult
Creator
Subject
- Biographies
- Family histories
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- Police -- Queensland -- Biography
- Police -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Australia -- Race relations -- 19th century
- Marr, David, 1947- -- Family
- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- Large type books
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject12
- Biographies
- Family histories
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- Police -- Queensland -- Biography
- Police -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Australia -- Race relations -- 19th century
- Marr, David, 1947- -- Family
- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- Large type books
- Content3
- Author1