...Nicole Sutton Purpose This paper considers how archival accounting records may support truth-telling about past atrocities during Australia's frontier wars. Design/methodology/approach The study examines two colonial accounting records – military muster payrolls and the ledger statements...

... at: garry.carnegie@rmit.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Journals, Accounting History Accounting history Critical and interpretive histories Archives Research taxonomy Research projects The broad scope of C&N assists in explaining the large number of citations...

... the perspective of a range of social and political theories. A tension has developed between those historians whose first loyalty is to the archive and those who look primarily to theory to inform their historical investigations. As accounting history matures, open debate between practitioners of different modes...