A social history of colonial Queensland towards a Marxist analysis

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This thesis is the first major account of colonial Queensland which seeks to integrate environmental, social, economic, political and ideological themes. It is also one of the very few in Queensland historiography which deploys a class analysis and possibly the only social history of the colonial period so far written from an explicitly Marxist standpoint.The introduction to this thesis is an account and assessment of a number of recent histories of Queensland. This critique forms a point of departure for a consideration of the 'social history' approach adopted in the thesis as a whole. The third section indicates various sources of inspiration for the discussion to follow and sums up the themes developed in subsequent chapters.Chapter one examines the formation of settler-colonialism in Queensland based on the pastoral mode of production. The analysis seeks to reassert interpretations which have emphasised the generally violent dispossession of Aborigines fundamental to this process,

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