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Taking Liberty - Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,150
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Taking Liberty - Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 (Hardcover): Ann Curthoys,...

Taking Liberty - Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 (Hardcover)

Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell

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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
Release date: October 2018
Authors: Ann Curthoys • Jessie Mitchell
Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-08485-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
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LSN: 1-107-08485-7
Barcode: 9781107084858

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