Colonial Queensland: perspectives on a Frontier society (1996)
Queensland
First Nations History
Colonial Queensland: perspectives on a Frontier society (1996)
Bill Thorpe

An impressive work of historical sociology. Covers Aboriginal labour patterns, environmental history (masculinity, hunting and attempts to eliminate native fauna), issues in colonialism, post-colonialism and Australian Studies, social structure (class, race and gender), colonial political economy and intercolonial and global connections, the so-called 'Queensland difference'. (Full text available at URL)