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  • Unsettled Subjects

    Race, Mobility and Colonial Citizenship in the Australian Settler Colonies

    by Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Australia's settler colonies were not only subject to British immigration but were also the destination of emigration from Asia and 'Asia Minor' on terms of both permanent settlement and fixed indenture. Amanda Nettelbeck argues that these unique patterns shaped ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Picturing Citizenship

    Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation

    Edited by Fay Anderson, Jane Lydon, Melissa Miles, Professor Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    For many, the conditions and privileges of citizenship, and the access it provides to equal civil, political and social rights, are taken for granted.Yet citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion and in settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with the legacies of colonisation. Looking beyond its legal definition to the wider historical ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Fatal Collisions

    The South Australian frontier and the violence of memory

    by Robert Foster, Rick Hosking, Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    In 1849, James Brown, a South Australian pastoralist, was charged with shooting dead nine Aboriginal people. Unable to find witnesses, the crown was forced to drop the case even though the magistrate was convinced of his guilt. Two generations later, a glowing biography of Brown's life noted merely that he was involved in a charge of poisoning an Aboriginal man, but emerged from the trial with a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood

    Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    by Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The nineteenth-century policy of 'Aboriginal protection' has usually been seen as a fleeting initiative of imperial humanitarianism, yet it sat within a larger set of legally empowered policies for regulating ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony

    Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim

    Edited by Penelope Edmonds, Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies. Extending a reading of ‘economies’ as labour relations into new arenas, this innovative collection of essays examines new understandings of the nexus between violence and intimacy in settler colonial ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World

    Edited by Philip Dwyer, Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. Bringing ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies

    Edited by Samuel Furphy, Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Out of the Silence

    The history and memory of South Australia's frontier wars

    by Robert Foster, Amanda Nettelbeck ...
    When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would be as much "under the safeguard of the law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Fragile Settlements

    Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

    by Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, Robert Foster ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
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  • 1835

    The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia

    by James Boyce ...
    The Award-Winning History of Colonial Melbourne'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' —David MarrWith the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land – and more people – was conquered than in the preceding fifty.In 1835 James Boyce ... Read more

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  • Convincing Ground

    Learning to Fall in Love with your Country

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    Convincing Ground is a wide ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the more satanic furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, ... Read more

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