'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'.],
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Table of contents
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 -- Index,