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dc.contributor.authorMcKay, Belinda
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:45:39Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:45:39Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.date.modified2009-10-13T21:48:07Z
dc.identifier.issn13218166
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S132181660000221X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/3231
dc.description.abstractRepeated 'boom and bust' phenomena have characterised the history of Queensland as a colony and state. In terms of infrastructure and cultural institutions, this has led to significant discontinuities: vital strategic centres of colonial power, such as Cooktown, now languish in relative obscurity and the role of their inhabitants as authors and agents of colonialism receives little attention. This study investigates the life of an early inhabitant of Cooktown, E.A.C. Olive, in the context of his location on Australia's northern frontier. The first part of this paper looks at Cooktown's establishment as a northern foothold of colonial rule; the second considers E.A.C. Olive's public life as a businessman on the northern frontier; the third discusses Olive's domestic life; and the fourth investigates his naturalist pursuits. Analysis of E.A.C. Olive's commercial, domestic and scientific activities reveals that he and his family were dependent in complex, ongoing and unacknowledged ways on Aboriginal people in the period following the frontier wars, when the colony of Queensland was reinforcing its territorial conquests.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Queensland Press
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom47
dc.relation.ispartofpageto65
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalQueensland Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther History and Archaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and Philosophy of Specific Fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2202
dc.titleConstructing a Life on the Northern Frontier: E.A.C. Olive of Cooktown
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2000 Griffith University. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. It is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this journal please refer to the journal's website or contact the author.
gro.date.issued2000
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gro.griffith.authorMcKay, Belinda J.


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