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Henry Prinsep's empire : framing a distant colony /

Henry Prinsep is known as Western Australia's first Chief Protector of Aborigines in the colonial government of Sir John Forrest, a period which saw the introduction of oppressive laws that dominated the lives of Aboriginal people for most of the twentieth century. But he was also an artist, ho...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Allbrook, Malcolm (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2014]
Collection:PANDORA electronic collection.
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Table des matières:
  • Biographical sketches of the family of Henry Charles Prinsep (1844-1922)
  • Introduction : an imperial man and his archive
  • Images of an imperial family
  • An Anglo-Indian community in Britain
  • Indian Ocean connections
  • Meeting Aboriginal people
  • 'Stationed by not sedentary'
  • 'Received into the very best society'
  • Chief Protector of Aborigines
  • 'Move slowly in a difficult manner'
  • A 'southern home'.