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This work 'explores how we might read Friendly Mission in the twenty-first century. In doing so the essays in this volume are symptomatic - but not conclusively representative - of the multiple readers, readings and interpretations that this textual artifact can generate. Narratives of colonial encounter - explorers' journals, ethnographies, letters, paintings - survive to be fathomed by later generations and, particularly in the former settler colonies, such accounts of early contact between indigenous and invading cultures are crucial to understandings of nations and their politics.' (from the editors' Introduction p.13-14)
'Reading Robinson, while remaining cognisant of local resonances, extends Friendly Mission from parochial particularity and situates it within international contexts, both in terms of contemporary accounts of colonial/settler contact, conflict with indigenes and current scholarship analysing this material.' - back cover
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Robinson's Hares, Still Running
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Colonial History , vol. 13 no. 2011; (p. 207-213)
— Review of Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary ; Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism A review essay. -
Pleading Robinson
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 49 2010; (p. 1-8)
— Review of Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary ; Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism -
Robinson's Journals
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , April vol. 7 no. 1 2010; (p. 21.1-21.2)
— Review of Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism Boyce discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the anthology, consisting of essays contributed from fourteen writers, which is designed to assist readers to interpret Friendly Mission, published in 1966. -
Reading Between the (Colonial) Lines
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 48 2010;
— Review of Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism ; Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary -
Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to Friendly Mission : Review
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , no. 33 2009; (p. 268-269)
— Review of Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism
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Controversial Player in the Great Colonial Drama
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15-16 August 2009; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary ; Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 33 no. 4 2009; (p. 491-492)
— Review of Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary ; Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism -
Reading Between the (Colonial) Lines
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 48 2010;
— Review of Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism ; Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary -
Robinson's Journals
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , April vol. 7 no. 1 2010; (p. 21.1-21.2)
— Review of Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism Boyce discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the anthology, consisting of essays contributed from fourteen writers, which is designed to assist readers to interpret Friendly Mission, published in 1966. -
Pleading Robinson
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 49 2010; (p. 1-8)
— Review of Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary ; Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism
- Friendly Mission : The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 1966 selected work diary