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Mutiny, terrorism, riots, and murder : a history of sedition in Australia and New Zealand / Kevin Baker.

Title: Mutiny, terrorism, riots, and murder : a history of sedition in Australia and New Zealand / Kevin Baker.
Author: Baker, K. J. (Kevin James)
Publication: Kenthurst, N.S.W : Rosenberg, 2006.

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254 p., xii of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

Takes a clear headed, historical look at civil and military unrest in Australasia, from the earliest times of European colonisation to the riots at Cronulla in 2005, whose intensity and aftermath took Australia by surprise.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-140) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : sedition, larrikins, mutiny, riot and rebellion -- pt. 1. Sedition and rebellion in the nineteenth century -- 1. Rebellious beginnings to 1825 -- 2. Unruly miners and others -- 3. Civil riots in the nineteenth century -- pt. 2. Military and civil mutinies, 1885-1970 -- 4. Military riots -- 5. Naval mutinies -- 6. Other military mutinies -- 7. Civil mutinies -- pt. 3. Riots, assassinations and challenges to authority -- 8. Race riots -- 9. Prison and civil riots -- 10. Political assassination, attacks on parliaments and terrorism -- 11. Extremes of protest -- App. Legal definition of 'seditious intent'.

ISBN

9781877058493
1877058491

LCCN

^^2007367170

OCLC

77549050

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library