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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 post-colonial thought to wrench open the inner workings of territorial expropriation and its historically tenacious variability. Russell at Monash...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boucher, Leigh, 1979- (Editor ), Russell, Lynette (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015.
Colección:Free online access: OAPEN.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: colonial history, postcolonial theory and the 'Aboriginal problem' in colonial Victoria
  • 1. 'Tickpen', 'Boro Boro': Aboriginal economic engagements in early Melbourne
  • 2. '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
  • 3. The 1869 Aborigines Protection Act: vernacular ethnography and the governance of Aboriginal subjects
  • 4. 'They formed a little family as it were': The Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1875-1883)
  • 5. Managing mission life, 1869-1886
  • 6. Photography, authenticity and Victoria's Aborigines Protection Act (1886)
  • 7. Women, authority and power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria, 1880-1910
  • 8. How different was Victoria? Aboriginal 'protection' in a comparative context
  • 9. The 'minutes of Evidence' project: creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past, present and future.