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Bushranging

Basu, Laura. “Memory Dispostifs and National Identities: The Case of Ned Kelly.” Memory Studies 4, no. 1 (2011): 33-41.

Bate, Weston. “Kelly and His Times.” In Ned Kelly: Man and Myth, 40-62. Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1968.

Bradford, Clare. “Instilling Postcolonial Nostalgias: Ned Kelly Narratives for Children.” Journal of Australian Studies 36, no. 2 (2012): 191-206.

Carnegie, Margaret. Morgan: The Bold Bushranger.  Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1974.

Castles, Alex C. Castles and Jennifer. Ned Kelly’s Last Days: Setting the Record Straight on the Death of an Outlaw.  Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2005.

Clark, Manning. “’Good Day to You, Ned Kelly’.” In Ned Kelly: Man and Myth, 12-39. Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1968.

Denheld, Bill. “The Politics of Ned: What Links Did Ned Kelly and His Associates Have with the Republican and Federation Movements in the Nineteenth-Century Victoria?”. Agora 3, no. 46 (2011): 20-23.

Finnane, Mark. “Pursuing Ned Kelly in the 1950s.” National Library of Australia News 17, no. 9 (2007): 10-13.

Foster, Meg. “Murder for White Consumption? Jimmy Governor and the Bush Ballad.” In Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, Space, edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, 173-89. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.

Foster, Meg. “The Forgotten War of 1900: Jimmy Governor and the Aboriginal People of Wollar.” Australian Historical Studies 50, no. 3 (2019): 1-16.

Frearson, Robert Sands, and Brian McDonald. The History of Bushranging in Australia.  Bondi: Australian History Promotions, 2004.

Gaunson, Stephen. “Ned Kelly & the Movies 1906-2003: Representation, Social Bandrity & History.” PhD thesis, RMIT University, 2010.

Huggan, Graham. “Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction: The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly.” Australian Literary Studies 20, no. 3 (2002): 142-54.

Jones, Ian. “The Kellys and Beechworth.” In Ned Kelly: Man and Myth, 63-73. Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1968.

McHugh, Evan. Bushrangers: Australia’s Greatest Self-Made Heroes. Camberwell: Penguin Books, 2011.

McQuilton, John. The Kelly Outbreak 1878-1880: The Geographical Dimension of Social Banditry.  Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979.

O’Malley, Pat. “Class Conflict, Land and Social Banditry: Bushranging in Nineteenth Century Australia.” Social Problems 26, no. 3 (1979): 271-83.

Perkins, John, and Jack Thompson. “Cattle Theft, Primitive Capital Accumulation and Pastoral Expansion in Early New South Wales, 1800-1850.” Australian Historical Studies 111 (1998): 289-302.

Petrow, Stefan. “Military police, bushrangers and the struggle for order in Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1826.” law&history 1 (2014): 77-109.

Pinto, Sarah, and Leigh Boucher. “Fighting for Legitimacy: Masculinity, Political Voice and Ned Kelly.” Journal of interdisciplinary gender studies 10, no. 1 (2006): 1-29.

Routt, William D. “More Australian Than Aristotelian: The Australian Bushranger Film, 1904-1914.” Senses of Cinema, no. 18 (December 2001).

Seal, Graham. The Outlaw Legend: A Cultural Tradition in Britain, America and Australia.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Tranter, Bruce, and Jed Donoghue. “Bushrangers: Ned Kelly and Australian Identity.” Journal of Sociology 44, no. 4 (2008): 373-90.

Tranter, Bruce, and Jed Donoghue. “Ned Kelly: Armoured Icon.” Journal of Sociology 46, no. 2 (2010): 187-205.

Waller, Louis. “Regina V. Edward Kelly.” In Ned Kelly: Man and Myth, 105-53. Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1968.

West, Susan. Bushranging and the Policing of Rural Banditry in New South Wales, 1860-1880. (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009.)

Wolf, Gabrielle. “Innocent Convicts and Respectable Bushrangers: History and the Nation in Melbourne Melodrama, 1890-1914.” Journal of Australian Studies 28, no. 81 (2004): 73-81.

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