Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index.
The northern Cape frontier zone in South African frontier historiography / Nigel Penn -- Time after time: temporal frontiers and boundaries in colonial images of the Australian landscape / Rod Macneil -- Antipodean heathens: the London Missionary Society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-50 / Anna Johnston -- Martyrs and messengers: Benjamin Franklin and the American frontier, the Moravians, and the nature of reason / Ron Southern -- The fluid frontier: Central Queensland, 1845-63 / Luke Godwin -- 'The final legal frontier': the Treaty of Waitangi and the creation of legal boundaries between Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand society / Grant Morris -- Handkerchief diplomacy: E.J. Eyre and sexual politics on the South Australian frontier / Kay Schaffer -- Beyond the frontier: possibilities and precariousness along Australia's southern coast / Julie Evans -- Torres Strait Islanders and the maritime frontier in early colonial Australia / Ian J. McNiven -- Nomadic landscapes and the colonial frontier: the problem of nomadism in German South West Africa / John K. Noyes -- All's not quiet on the western front- rethinking resistance and frontiers in Aboriginal historiography / Nathan Wolski