Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Cassandra Pybus Explores the History of ‘terror, Blood and Tears’ on the Frontiers of Colonial Tasmania in This Captivating Biography
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'When I first encountered the name ‘Truganini’ as a young student of Australian race relations in the 1960s, she was to me, as Cassandra Pybus’s Preface infers, ‘an international icon for extinction’ (xvii). Into the 1970s, she had merely a post-mortem presence in my consciousness. I knew of her by what I then believed was her portentous absence: the supposed ‘last tragic victim of an inexorable historical process’ (xvii), before Lyndall Ryan’s monumental pioneering work of 1981 corrected that mesmerising interpretive slippage in my brain (The Aboriginal Tasmanians).'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 19 no. 1 2022 24304636 2022 periodical issue

    'We are delighted to welcome readers to a new year of History Australia and to a new team to manage it. Before introducing ourselves more fully, we would like to express our gratitude to Catharine Coleborne and James Dunk for being our special issue editors. It has been wonderful to have a safe pair of hands help us out during our tricky triennial change-over period. For more than a year they have planned and managed a brilliant collection of articles about the history of madness and marginality. Their introduction gives an excellent summary of the field, an outline of their contributors’ interventions, and a discussion of future directions on this topic. We are pleased to publish here their nine pieces. They span the history of madness in Australia and its supposed marginality, from convict times to the present. The articles delve into particular regions, like Western Australia, and into connections between the Australian colonies and other settler societies, such as South Africa. Together these articles show, as Coleborne and Dunk argue, how mental illness has been history’s ‘constant companion’ far more than it has ever really been on the margins.' (Kate Fullagar, Jessica Lake, Benjamin Mountford and Ellen Warne : Editorial introduction)

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