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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 together scholars from around the world, the book includes
chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies
and conquests. It considers multiple experiences of colonial
violence, ranging from political dispute to the non-lethal violence
of everyday colonialism and the symbolic repression inherent in
colonial practices and hierarchies. These comparative case studies
show how violence was used to assert and maintain control in the
colonies, contesting the long held view that the colonial project
was of benefit to colonised peoples.
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, they consider the place of
different historical actors who were involved in the implementation
of protective policy, who served as its intermediaries on the
ground, or who responded as its intended "beneficiaries." These
included metropolitan and colonial administrators, Protectors or
similar agents, government interpreters and church-affiliated
missionaries, settlers with economic investments in the politics of
conciliation, and the Indigenous peoples who were themselves
subjected to colonial policies. Drawing out some of the
interventions and encounters lived out in the name of protection,
the book examines some of the critical roles it played in the
making of colonial relations.
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 economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it
explores include cross-cultural exchange in sealing and maritime
communities, labour relations on the frontier, inside the pastoral
station and in the colonial home, and the material and emotional
economies of exploration. Following the curious mobility of texts,
objects, and frameworks of knowledge, this volume teases out the
diversity of ways in which violence and intimacy were expressed in
the economies of everyday encounters on the ground. In doing so, it
broadens the horizon of debate about the nature of colonial
economies and the intercultural encounters that were enmeshed
within them.
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, they consider the place of
different historical actors who were involved in the implementation
of protective policy, who served as its intermediaries on the
ground, or who responded as its intended "beneficiaries." These
included metropolitan and colonial administrators, Protectors or
similar agents, government interpreters and church-affiliated
missionaries, settlers with economic investments in the politics of
conciliation, and the Indigenous peoples who were themselves
subjected to colonial policies. Drawing out some of the
interventions and encounters lived out in the name of protection,
the book examines some of the critical roles it played in the
making of colonial relations.
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 new or newly-mobile colonised peoples. Protection
policies drew colonised peoples within the embrace of the law,
managed colonial labour needs, and set conditions on mobility.
Within this comparative frame, Nettelbeck traces how the imperative
to protect indigenous rights represented more than an obligation to
mitigate the impacts of colonialism and dispossession. It carried a
far-reaching agenda of legal reform that arose from the need to
manage colonised peoples in an Empire where the demands of humane
governance jostled with colonial growth.
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 economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it
explores include cross-cultural exchange in sealing and maritime
communities, labour relations on the frontier, inside the pastoral
station and in the colonial home, and the material and emotional
economies of exploration. Following the curious mobility of texts,
objects, and frameworks of knowledge, this volume teases out the
diversity of ways in which violence and intimacy were expressed in
the economies of everyday encounters on the ground. In doing so, it
broadens the horizon of debate about the nature of colonial
economies and the intercultural encounters that were enmeshed
within them.
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 together scholars from around the world, the book includes
chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies
and conquests. It considers multiple experiences of colonial
violence, ranging from political dispute to the non-lethal violence
of everyday colonialism and the symbolic repression inherent in
colonial practices and hierarchies. These comparative case studies
show how violence was used to assert and maintain control in the
colonies, contesting the long held view that the colonial project
was of benefit to colonised peoples.
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 new or newly-mobile colonised peoples. Protection
policies drew colonised peoples within the embrace of the law,
managed colonial labour needs, and set conditions on mobility.
Within this comparative frame, Nettelbeck traces how the imperative
to protect indigenous rights represented more than an obligation to
mitigate the impacts of colonialism and dispossession. It carried a
far-reaching agenda of legal reform that arose from the need to
manage colonised peoples in an Empire where the demands of humane
governance jostled with colonial growth.
In 1849, James Brown, a South Australian pastoralist, was charged
with the shooting deaths of 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 change of poisoning an Aboriginal man, but emerged from the
trial with a clean slate. Why had the story changed so much: form
shooting to poisoning, from nine victims to one, from evading trial
to being found innocent? Fatal Collisions is about violence on the
South Australian frontier and the ways in which it has been
remembered in Anglo-Australian accounts of the past.
Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native
Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the
violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1891 for the
murder of two Aboriginal men, and was posted to an even more remote
frontier in the Top End. During his time in the Territory,
Willshire wrote of his experiences in several extraordinary
memoirs. Part murder mystery and part courtroom drama, his story
illuminates unfolding issues of race and nationalism in colonial
Australia on the eve of Federation. 'This subtle but shocking work
penetrates to Australia's heart of darkness ...' - Bain Attwood
Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which British
colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous peoples in
south-west Australia and Prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early
twentieth century. At the start of this period, in a humanitarian
response to settlers’ increased demand for land, Britain’s
Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them
subjects under British law. This book highlights the parallels and
divergences between these connected British frontiers by examining
how colonial actors and institutions interpreted and applied the
principle of law in their interaction with Indigenous peoples “on
the ground.”
Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which British
colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous peoples in
south-west Australia and Prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early
twentieth century. At the start of this period, in a humanitarian
response to settlers' increased demand for land, Britain's Colonial
Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects
under British law. This book highlights the parallels and
divergences between these connected British frontiers by examining
how colonial actors and institutions interpreted and applied the
principle of law in their interaction with Indigenous peoples "on
the ground."
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