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IN THE NAME OF THE LAW IBD

WAKEFIELD PRESS
11 / 2018
9781862547483
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Sinopsis

Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps ofáNative Police in Central Australia during the 1880s, a timeáwhen conflict on that pastoral frontier was at its height.áNotorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventuallyátried in 1891 for the murder of two Aboriginal men, and wasáposted to an even more remote frontier in the Top End.During his time in the Territory, Willshire wrote of hisáexperiences in several extraordinary memoirs. In these heárepresents himself as an explorer in the service of hisácountry, as an anthropologist gathering knowledge aboutáAboriginal Australia, and as an exemplary Australianábushman, at a time when the bushman legend was in itságenesis and the nation was yet to be. Most of all, heáappears as the representative of the law, working to makeáthe country safe for the &lsquo,brave pioneers who push outáthe frontier&rsquo,.Part murder mystery and part courtroom drama, his storyáilluminates unfolding issues of race and nationalism inácolonial Australia on the eve of Federation.