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'This book is the first comprehensive biography of Curr and explores both his life and legacy. In particular, it considers his posthumous influence on the Yorta Yorta native title case (1994–2001), when his written account of the Yorta Yorta ancestors played a key role in the failure of the claim. By exploring Curr’s interactions with Aboriginal people—as a pastoralist and Aboriginal administrator—this book advocates a more nuanced, critical, and historically informed interpretation of Curr’s ethnological writings than was evident in the Yorta Yorta case.' (Source: Publishers website)

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    • Acton, Inner Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: ANU E Press , 2013 .
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      Link: 7106584Full text document Sighted: 06/03/2014
      Extent: 1 v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922144706 (pbk)

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Edward M Curr and the Tide of History Robert Kenny , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , June no. 1 2015; (p. 125-127)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism

'As much scholarship has shown over the past decades, settler attitudes to Indigenous peoples thrived on difference and righteousness — the latter not in a religious sense (necessarily) but in an absolute conviction, one sunk deep into the settler heart, of the moral and material justness of their usurpation of Indigenous country. This conviction sanctioned settler violence and outlawed Indigenous resistance. Difference not only denied the humanity in the Indigenous face; it made the people objects of curiosity, to be quickly described, analysed and catalogued for science before they ‘disappeared’ as naturally as one season disappears into another. There arises in this a paradox: genocidal practice combined with the apparent sympathy of curiosity. In the Australian colonies of the last half of the nineteenth century this paradox was no more greatly manifest than in the person of Edward M Curr — enough in itself to make him the subject of analysis, but Curr is even more ripe for study since, as Samuel Furphy shows in this biography, he has had a particularly potent afterlife.'  (Introduction)

Review : Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Richard Broome , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 45 no. 2 2014; (p. 285-286)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism
Review : Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Rachel Standfield , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , June vol. 38 no. 2 2014; (p. 258-259)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism
A Gentleman, A Scholar and a Settler Edward Cavanagh , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 11 no. 1 2014; (p. 247-249)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism
A Gentleman, A Scholar and a Settler Edward Cavanagh , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 11 no. 1 2014; (p. 247-249)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism
Review : Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Rachel Standfield , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , June vol. 38 no. 2 2014; (p. 258-259)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism
Review : Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Richard Broome , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 45 no. 2 2014; (p. 285-286)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism
[Review Essay] Edward M Curr and the Tide of History Robert Kenny , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , June no. 1 2015; (p. 125-127)

— Review of Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History Samuel Furphy , 2013 single work criticism

'As much scholarship has shown over the past decades, settler attitudes to Indigenous peoples thrived on difference and righteousness — the latter not in a religious sense (necessarily) but in an absolute conviction, one sunk deep into the settler heart, of the moral and material justness of their usurpation of Indigenous country. This conviction sanctioned settler violence and outlawed Indigenous resistance. Difference not only denied the humanity in the Indigenous face; it made the people objects of curiosity, to be quickly described, analysed and catalogued for science before they ‘disappeared’ as naturally as one season disappears into another. There arises in this a paradox: genocidal practice combined with the apparent sympathy of curiosity. In the Australian colonies of the last half of the nineteenth century this paradox was no more greatly manifest than in the person of Edward M Curr — enough in itself to make him the subject of analysis, but Curr is even more ripe for study since, as Samuel Furphy shows in this biography, he has had a particularly potent afterlife.'  (Introduction)

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