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Settler Society in the Australian Colonies - Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Hardcover)
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Settler Society in the Australian Colonies - Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Hardcover)
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The 1820s to the 1860s were a foundational period in Australian
history, arguably at least as important as Federation.
Industrialization was transforming Britain, but the southern
colonies were pre-industrial, with economies driven by pastoralism,
agriculture, mining, whaling and sealing, commerce, and the
construction trades. Convict transportation provided the labour on
which the first settlements depended before it was brought to a
staggered end, first in New South Wales in 1840 and last in Western
Australia in 1868. The numbers of free settlers rose dramatically,
surging from the 1820s and again during the 1850s gold rushes. The
convict system increasingly included assignment to private masters
and mistresses, thus offering settlers the inducement of unpaid
labourers as well as the availability of land on a scale that both
defied and excited the British imagination. By the 1830s schemes
for new kinds of colonies, based on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's
systematic colonization, gained attention and support. The pivotal
development of the 1840s-1850s, and the political events which form
the backbone of this story were the Australian colonies' gradual
attainment of representative and then responsible government.
Through political struggle and negotiation, in which Australians
looked to Canada for their model of political progress, settlers
slowly became self-governing. But these political developments were
linked to the frontier violence that shaped settlers' lives and
became accepted as part of respectable manhood. With narratives of
individual lives, Settler Society shows that women's exclusion from
political citizenship was vigorously debated, and that settlers
were well aware of their place in an empire based on racial
hierarchies and threatened by revolts. Angela Woollacott
particularly focuses on settlers' dependence in these decades on
intertwined categories of unfree labour, including
poorly-compensated Aborigines and indentured Indian and Chinese
labourers, alongside convicts.
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