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  • Nervous nation: Fear, conflict and narratives of fortified domestic architecture on the Queensland frontier

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    Burke, Heather
    Kerkhove, Ray
    Wallis, Lynley A
    Keys, Cathy
    Barker, Bryce
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Wallis, Lynley A.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    The frontier of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia was a place in which colonists routinely lived in fear of retaliation by the Aboriginal peoples whose traditional lands they had forcibly dispossessed. It has been suggested this concern manifested itself in domestic architecture, in both active and passive defensive strategies designed to afford protection against various forms of potential attack. Yet there remains a lack of substantive research to support such assertions. In this article, we present an analysis of accounts drawn from a range of sources of 97 domestic structures across Queensland with claims for ...
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    The frontier of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia was a place in which colonists routinely lived in fear of retaliation by the Aboriginal peoples whose traditional lands they had forcibly dispossessed. It has been suggested this concern manifested itself in domestic architecture, in both active and passive defensive strategies designed to afford protection against various forms of potential attack. Yet there remains a lack of substantive research to support such assertions. In this article, we present an analysis of accounts drawn from a range of sources of 97 domestic structures across Queensland with claims for defensive features. Although suggesting that fortified domestic structures were more common than previously envisaged, our review indicates that defensive features were usually minimal – holes in walls and barrable doors, windows or other ports of entry – reflecting the often expedient nature of the structures themselves. First-hand accounts of these buildings are rare, although not entirely absent, with most written accounts being reminiscences told in hindsight by later descendants, resulting in both distortions and myth-building. Accounts of fortified domestic structures peak in the decades following Federation and through both World Wars as the newly minted Australian nation explicitly engaged in nation-building and constructing the ‘glorious pioneer’ narrative
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    Journal Title
    Aboriginal History
    Volume
    44
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.22459/ah.44.2020.02
    Funder(s)
    ARC
    Grant identifier(s)
    DP160100307
    Copyright Statement
    © 2020 ANU Press. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)
    Architecture not elsewhere classified
    Australian history
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/404754
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    • Gold Coast
    • Logan
    • Brisbane - Queensland, Australia
    First Peoples of Australia
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    • Torres Strait Islander