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Taking Liberty - Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 (Paperback)
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Taking Liberty - Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 (Paperback)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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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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