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dc.contributor.authorBurke, Heather
dc.contributor.authorKerkhove, Ray
dc.contributor.authorWallis, Lynley A
dc.contributor.authorKeys, Cathy
dc.contributor.authorBarker, Bryce
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-31T00:21:52Z
dc.date.available2021-05-31T00:21:52Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn0314-8769
dc.identifier.doi10.22459/ah.44.2020.02
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/404754
dc.description.abstractThe 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
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Flinders University of South Australia ARC
dc.publisherANU Press
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom21
dc.relation.ispartofpageto57
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAboriginal History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume44
dc.relation.urihttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP160100307
dc.relation.grantIDDP160100307
dc.relation.fundersARC
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArchitecture not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430107
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode330199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430302
dc.titleNervous nation: Fear, conflict and narratives of fortified domestic architecture on the Queensland frontier
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBurke, H; Kerkhove, R; Wallis, LA; Keys, C; Barker, B, Nervous nation: Fear, conflict and narratives of fortified domestic architecture on the Queensland frontier, Aboriginal History, 2021, 44, pp. 21-57
dc.date.updated2021-05-30T01:01:47Z
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