Marks of civilisation : a social history of the law in the Rockhampton district 1858-1878 / Ruth Jenour McConnell.

2002.

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Law -- Queensland.

Police -- Queensland.

Law -- Queensland -- History.

Introduction: locating the law in colonial history

1. The beginning: foundations laid and patterns set

2. The players

3. ...taught to consider themselves as a semi-military body: the changing face of Rockhampton policing

4. Rockhampton v. the government

5. Land and labour

6. Bevies of prostitutes and their unseemly nightly brawls

7. ...ever be able to understand our legal tribunals?: aliens uner the law

8. Domestic relationships and the law: protection, coercion, subjugation

9. Between Scylla and Charybdis: the treatment of Aborigines under the law

Conclusion: Rockhampton and the law.

Dissertation submitted as fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Central Queensland University, September 2002.

Includes bibliography.

viii, 445 p. : maps + 1 CD-ROM.