CLYNE, Robert

Colonial Blue. A History of the South Australian Police Force, 1836-1916

Netley, Wakefield Press, 1987.

Quarto, xxii, 299 pages with numerous plates.

Papered boards slightly bumped at the head of the spine; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed.

'The story of Australia's first and oldest organized police force ... It is a stormy and violent history as police strove to bring Pax Britannica across a wild frontier which stretched from Mount Gambier in the south to Darwin in the north ... [Clyne] looks closely at inter-racial violence and in a dispassionate manner chronicles the tragic tale which followed in the wake of European settlement' (from the dustwrapper blurb).

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