Henry Prinsep's empire : framing a distant colony /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allbrook, Malcolm (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2014]
Series:PANDORA electronic collection.
Subjects:
Prinsep, Henry Charles, > 1844-1922.
Prinsep, Henry Charles, > 1844-1922
East India Company.
East India Company
1800-1899
Artists > Australia > Western Australia > Biography.
Civil service > Officials and employees > Biography.
Artistes > Australie > Australie-Occidentale > Biographies.
History > Australia & New Zealand.
Artists
Civil service > Officials and employees
Manners and customs
Western Australia > Social life and customs > 19th century.
India > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Australie-Occidentale > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Inde > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
India
Western Australia
Australian
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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'.

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