The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land: In Pursuit of the Legend

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The reverberations of that rumour--and of the actions it precipitated--continue to this day.
In the mid-1840s, as Port Phillip developed into a burgeoning provincial centre, the White Woman rumour was deployed to serve numerous political and cultural ends. Sensationalist speculation in the colonial press about a white woman held in thrall by 'ruthless savages' fuelled anti-Aboriginal attitudes and provided justification for the taking of Kurnai...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052284930X

ISBN13:9780522849301

Release Date:February 1997

Publisher:Melbourne University

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"

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