Part 1. Preface, Introduction and Historical Overview

Table of Contents

Preface

References

1. Introduction: transforming the frontier in contemporary Australia

The genuine frontier

Frontier, self and other

References

2. Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia

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