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Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies book cover

1st Edition

Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies

Edited By Samuel Furphy, Amanda Nettelbeck Copyright 2020
264 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part I: The Conception and Circulation of "Aboriginal Protection"

1. Imagining Protection in the Antipodean Colonies: Actors, Agency and Governance

Samuel Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck

2. Culture and Policies: Sir George Grey, Protection and the Early Nineteenth-Century Empire

Richard Price

3. "The British Government Is Now Awaking": How Humanitarian Quakers Repackaged and Circulated the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines

Penelope Edmonds and Zoë Laidlaw

4. Philanthropy or Patronage?: Aboriginal Protectors in the Port Phillip District and Western Australia

Samuel Furphy

5. Protective Governance and Legal Order on the Colonial Frontier

Amanda Nettelbeck

Part II: Interpreting Protection on the Ground: Actors and Practices

6. Spanning Two Worlds: Protection, Assimilation and the Role of Edward Meurant, Government Interpreter, New Zealand, 1840-1851

Shaunnagh Dorsett

7. Edward Shortland and the Protection of Aborigines in New Zealand, 1840-1846

Marjan Lousberg

8. Systematic Colonisation and Protection in Western Australia: The Origin and Nature of John Hutt’s Colonial Governance of Aboriginal People

Ann Hunter

9. Protecting the Protectors: Evaluating the Agency of Missionary-Protectors in the New Settlements of Adelaide and Melbourne, 1838-1840

Skye Krichauff

Part III: Refashioning Protection

10. A Short and Simple Provisional Code: The Pastoralist as "Protector"

Tim Rowse

11. Lawful Conduct, Aboriginal Protection and Land in Victoria, 1859-1869

Joanna Cruikshank and Mark McMillan

12. Robert John Sholl: Protection "Pilbara-Style"

Malcolm Allbrook

13. "Protection Talk" and Popular Performance: The Wild Australia Show on Tour, 1892-1893

Maria Nugent

Biography

Samuel Furphy is Research Fellow in the National Centre of Biography, School of History, at the Australian National University.





Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor in History at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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