The Civilisation of Port Phillip – Settler Ideology, Violence, and Rhetorical P…

The Civilisation of Port PhillipSettler Ideology, Violence, and Rhetorical Possession\nAuthor(s): Thomas James Rogers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Melbourne University Press, Australia\nImprint: Melbourne University Press\nISBN-13: 9780522870602, 978-0522870602\nSynopsis\nPort Phillip's free settlers often said that they were civilising a wilderness. The truth was that the occupied country already had people, laws, politics, and economies. What did 'civilisation' mean to the free settlers? And what was the relationship between civilising and violence?\n\nThe Civilisation of Port Phillip tracks the violent history of the first years of British settlement in the Port Phillip District, now the state of Victoria. It illuminates the underlying free-settler rhetoric that advocated and abetted violence on the frontier. For the first time, we hear the settlers tell us in their own words what the civilisation of Port Phillip really involved.\n\nFrontier violence in Port Phillip involved Abo.