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Edward M. Curr and the tide of history / Samuel Furphy.

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ISBN	9781922144706 (pbk.) :
Author	Furphy, Samuel (author.)
Title	Edward M. Curr and the tide of history / Samuel Furphy.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, 2013.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2013.
Description	xvi, 229 pages : portraits, maps ; 26 cm.
Series	Aboriginal history monograph series no. 26
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Prologue: 'Claim sunk by pen of a swordsman' -- From Sheffield to Van Diemen's Land -- 'Troubles of a beginner' -- 'A station formed at Tongala' -- Claiming the Moira -- Decline and fall -- Rebuilding a reputation -- Recollections of squatting -- 'The native is a child' -- Australian race -- Ethnographic rivalries -- 'My sable neighbours' -- Tide of history -- Epilogue: 'The ghost of Edward Curr'.
Summary	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.
Subjects	Curr, Edward M.(Edward Micklethwaite),1820-1889
	Authors, Australian -- Biography
	Frontier and pioneer life -- Victoria
	Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
	Native title (Australia)
	Yorta Yorta (Australian people)
Series	Aboriginal history monograph no. 26.
Call number	305.89915 AHM no. 26

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A00818397	305.89915 AHM no. 26	General Collection	Aboriginal History Monograph No. 26	. Available to Museum Staff .