Settler colonial governance in nineteenth-century Victoria
This collection represents a serious re-examination of existing work on the Aboriginal history of nineteenth-century Victoria, deploying the insights of postcolonial thought to wrench open the inner workings of territorial expropriation and its historically tenacious variability. Colonial historians...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, Australia :
Australian National University Press
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423725406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Colonial history, postcolonial theory and the 'Aboriginal problem' in colonial Victoria
- 'Tickpen', 'Boro Boro': Aboriginal economic engagements in early Melbourne
- 'Thus have been preserved numerous interesting facts that would otherwise have been lost': Colonisation, protection and William Thomas's contribution to The Aborigines of Victoria
- The 1869 Aborigines Protection Act: Vernacular ethnography and the governance of Aboriginal subjects
- 'They formed a little family as it were': The Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1875-1883)
- Managing mission life, 1869-1886
- 6. Photography, authenticity and Victoria's Aborigines Protection Act (1886)
- Women, authority and power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria, 1880-1910
- How different was Victoria? Aboriginal 'protection' in a comparative context
- The 'Minutes of Evidence' project: Creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past, present and future.
