Richard Price

Empire and Indigeneity (eBook, ePUB)

Histories and Legacies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines encounters between first peoples and imperial power, describing the social relations of the indigenous imperial encounter in the early nineteenth century but also how these clashes reverberated through subsequent time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000385960
• Artikelnr.: 61903339

Autorenporträt

Richard Price has written widely on British social, labor, and imperial history. His most recent book, Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth Century Africa (2008), was awarded the 2010 prize for the best book in British history post-1750 by the North American Conference on British Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Origins and Approaches
Chapter 1-Engagement
Introduction
Agency and Engagement
Order and Disorder Cultural and Social Intimacies
Knowledge and Observation: A New Eye
Conclusion
Chapter 2-Mentalities
Introduction: The Discourse of Humanitarianism
Culture and Governance
Sensibilities and Psychology
Anxieties
Conclusion
Chapter 3-Policies and Governance: Conciliation and Coercion
Introduction: Policies and History
The Search for Conciliation
Sir George Arthur and Van Diemen's Land
The Disenchantment of Sir George Arthur
The Inner Turmoil of Sir George Arthur
Chapter 4-Policies and Governance: Protection
Sir George Arthur and the Origins of Protection
Protection: History and Typologies
The Failure of the Port Phillip Protectorate
Transforming Protection
Conclusion
Chapter 5-Policies and Governance: Racial Amalgamation
Introduction
Racial Amalgamation in Discourse and History
Sir George Grey and Racial Amalgamation
Racial Amalgamation and the Law
Land And Dispossession
The Period of Pre-emption: Before c. 1863
Dispossession: Post c. 1860
Conclusion
Chapter 6-Law and Sovereignty
Introduction: Law and Empire
Uncertain Sovereignty: The Continued Importance of Natural Rights
When Lawlessness was the Law
Exceptionalism or Assimilation?
Aboriginal Evidence and the Oath
Inter Se
Results and Consequences
Stabilization: The Emergence of Positivist Law
A New Narrative of Aboriginal Rights
Conclusion
Chapter 7-Violence and the Coming of Colonial Order
Introduction
Structures of Violence
The State and Violence
Salutary Terror: The Normalization of Violence
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Fear
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Silence and Denial
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Projection and Narrative
Conclusion
Chapter 8-The Emergence of Settler Politics
Introduction
The Exhaustion of the "Humane Policy" Agenda
Settler Consciousness
Reconciling Liberalism to Empire in Political Theory
Conclusion
Chapter 9-Legacies in Indigenous Politics
Introduction: The Past in the Present
The Silences of Settler Society
The Making of Modern Indigenous Politics
Disruptions
Chapter 10-Legacies in Imperial Culture
Introduction
Humanitarian Narratives
Silences, Forgetting and Distancing
Networks
Heroes and Villains
Conclusion
Bibliography Primary Sources
Bibliography Secondary Sources
Index