Ann Curthoys

Taking Liberty (eBook, ePUB)

Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with these new political institutions. It is, essentially, a bringing together of two histories that have hitherto been told separately: one concerns the arrival of early democracy in the Australian colonies, as white settlers moved from the shame and restrictions of the penal era to a new and freer society with their own institutions of government; the other is the tragedy of indigenous dispossession and displacement, with its frontier violence, poverty, disease and enforced regimes of mission life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108581288
• Artikelnr.: 54171647

Autorenporträt

Ann Curthoys is an Australian historian who has written on many aspects of Australian history. Her many books include Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers (2002), which won the Stanner Prize from the Australian Institute of indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Studies, was 'Highly Commended' for Non-Fiction in the Australian Human Rights awards and was shortlisted for the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award for Non-Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: how settlers gained self-government and indigenous people
(almost) lost it; Part I. A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government,
Settlers, Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples: 1. Colonialism and
catastrophe: 1830; 2. 'Another new world inviting our occupation':
colonisation and the beginnings of humanitarian intervention, 1831-1837; 3.
Settlers oppose indigenous protection: 1837-1842; 4. A colonial conundrum:
settler rights versus indigenous rights, 1837-1842; 5. Who will control the
land? Colonial and imperial debates 1842-1846; Part II. Towards
Self-Government: 6. Who will govern the settlers? Imperial and settler
desires, visions, utopias, 1846-1850; 7. 'No place for the sole of their
feet': imperial-colonial dialogue on Aboriginal land rights, 1846-1851; 8.
Who will govern Aboriginal people? Britain transfers control of Aboriginal
policy to the colonies, 1852-1854; 9. The dark side of responsible
government? Britain and indigenous people in the self-governing colonies,
1854-1870; Part III. Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People,
1856-c.1870: 10. Ghosts of the past, people of the present: Tasmania; 11.
'A refugee in our own land': governing Aboriginal people in Victoria; 12.
Aboriginal survival in New South Wales; 13. Their worst fears realised: the
disaster of Queensland; 14. A question of honour in the colony that was
meant to be different: Aboriginal policy in South Australia; Part IV.
Self-Government for Western Australia: 15. 'A little short of slavery':
forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia 1856-1884; 16. 'A slur upon
the colony': making Western Australia's unusual constitution, 1885-1890;
Conclusion.