'This thesis is primarily a study of Aboriginal-European relations in North Queensland from first settlement at Port Denison in 1861 till 1897 when the era of protection was ushered in by the Aboriginals Protection and the Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act. (Source: Abstract)
The thesis is divided into four parts:
Part I. The prelude to European colonization.
Part II Frontier conflict.
Part III. Aboriginal-European relations in the pacified areas.
Part IV. European racial thought in North Queensland.
Invasion and Resistance : Aboriginal-European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier, 1861-1897
Canberra
:
Australian National University Press
,
1982
8615801
1982
single work
criticism
'The destruction of Aboriginal society in the far north of Queensland involved a war for survival more effectively fought by the clans than in most other places; ...Dr Loos traces the story from the first contacts of Aborigines with the whites up to the beginnings of what is still basically the Queensland Aboriginal policy...' (Source: Foreword, p. vii)
