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Article: Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa.(Book review)
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Edited by Norman Etherington (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2007), pp. 220, $39.95 hb.
Norm Etherington, who has edited Mapping Colonial Conquest and contributes its best chapters, suggests that in Australia "cartography struggles to free itself from the shackles of the colonial legacy". David Horton's well-known map of Aboriginal Australia, mentioned but not deconstructed by Etherington, strikes me as an interesting case study which shows that while the colonial legacy is in fact being tackled in Australia, pre-contact indigenous ideas and Weltanschauung are not easily reconciled with, or ...
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