Modern Frontier: Aspects of the 1950s in Australia's Northern Territory

'Modern Frontier' is a study of Australia's Northern Territory in the 1950s using an interdisciplinary approach that takes in environmental, historical and cultural history. Through a series of chapters from a number of contributors, a decade in Australian history is revealed from a Territory perspective. The editors have brought together a diverse range of authors, experts in their fields, who provide a fascinating insight into aspects of Australian history and policy in the north. The decade that brought issues of assimilation and Aboriginal culture to the national stage, against a backdrop of the Cold War, had the Northern Territory as its theatre of representation. This book explores a period that saw a federal experiment to normalise the north, the black half of a White Australia, across a vast geographic region with diverse population; the results are often surprising and offer new insight into this period in Australian history. The editors are three historians with a wide experience of researching and writing Territory history. Modern Frontier provided them an exciting opportunity to work with a range of authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, on a subject where the issues still powerfully resonate today, more than half a century on. [ ...A multitude of facets in Territory affairs a half-century ago. It's a new view... a rich, often provocative one. Professor Alan Powell, author of 'Far Country'.]Section A: White dreams, white schemes: assimilating the territory. Ch. 1. Finding the road to Rum Jungle / Julie T. Wells -- Ch. 2. Nation and assimilation: continuity and discontinuity in Aboriginal affairs in the 1950s / Russell McGregor -- Section B: Settlers and settling. Ch. 4. Health: a matter of control / Suzanne Parry -- Ch. 5. You are what you eat: food and cultural identity / Mickey Dewar -- Ch. 6. From 'native relics to Flynn's pillar': cultural heritage management in the Northern Territory during the 1950s / David Carment, Clayton Fredericksen and Kathy De La Rue -- Ch. 7. Populating the Northern Territory / Margaret Landigran and Julie T. Wells -- Section C: What's yours is mine ... Ch. 8. Crossing trajectories: the Northern Territory and Australian art / Daena Murray -- Ch. 9. Corroboree moderne / Suzanne Spunner -- Ch. 10. The art of engagement: indigenous art and outside influence / Margie West -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- IndexJira Ticket : CDU-290 : Collection Development Manager made the decision that for the books that have this message " This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing to the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced, by any process, without written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher, Charles Darwin University Press, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT 0909, Australia" in the front they would treat CDU NTU Press as the copyright holder based on this statement. CDU Press have given permission for these to be added to our site but no additional licencing terms provided. That is a reasonable risk management based decision