Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences of the encounter in the early nineteenth century between the British imperial presence and the First Peoples of what were to become Australia and New Zealand. However, the shape of social relations between Indigenous peoples and the forces of empire does not remain constant over time. The book tracks how the creation of empire in this part of the world possessed long-lasting legacies both for the settler colonies that emerged and for the wider history of British imperial culture.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Origins and Approaches
Chapter 1—Engagement
Introduction
Agency and Engagement
Order and Disorder Cultural and Social Intimacies
Knowledge and Observation: A New Eye
Conclusion
Chapter 2—Mentalities
Introduction: The Discourse of Humanitarianism
Culture and Governance
Sensibilities and Psychology
Anxieties
Conclusion
Chapter 3—Policies and Governance: Conciliation and Coercion
Introduction: Policies and History
The Search for Conciliation
Sir George Arthur and Van Diemen’s Land
The Disenchantment of Sir George Arthur
The Inner Turmoil of Sir George Arthur
Chapter 4—Policies and Governance: Protection
Sir George Arthur and the Origins of Protection
Protection: History and Typologies
The Failure of the Port Phillip Protectorate
Transforming Protection
Conclusion
Chapter 5—Policies and Governance: Racial Amalgamation
Introduction
Racial Amalgamation in Discourse and History
Sir George Grey and Racial Amalgamation
Racial Amalgamation and the Law
Land And Dispossession
The Period of Pre-emption: Before c. 1863
Dispossession: Post c. 1860
Conclusion
Chapter 6—Law and Sovereignty
Introduction: Law and Empire
Uncertain Sovereignty: The Continued Importance of Natural Rights
When Lawlessness was the Law
Exceptionalism or Assimilation?
Aboriginal Evidence and the Oath
Inter Se
Results and Consequences
Stabilization: The Emergence of Positivist Law
A New Narrative of Aboriginal Rights
Conclusion
Chapter 7—Violence and the Coming of Colonial Order
Introduction
Structures of Violence
The State and Violence
Salutary Terror: The Normalization of Violence
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Fear
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Silence and Denial
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Projection and Narrative
Conclusion
Chapter 8—The Emergence of Settler Politics
Introduction
The Exhaustion of the "Humane Policy" Agenda
Settler Consciousness
Reconciling Liberalism to Empire in Political Theory
Conclusion
Chapter 9—Legacies in Indigenous Politics
Introduction: The Past in the Present
The Silences of Settler Society
The Making of Modern Indigenous Politics
Disruptions
Chapter 10—Legacies in Imperial Culture
Introduction
Humanitarian Narratives
Silences, Forgetting and Distancing
Networks
Heroes and Villains
Conclusion
Bibliography Primary Sources
Bibliography Secondary Sources
Index
Biography
Richard Price has written widely on British social, labor, and imperial history. His most recent book, Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth Century Africa (2008), was awarded the 2010 prize for the best book in British history post-1750 by the North American Conference on British Studies.
"In excavating this past Price provides an account that is brimming with brilliant insights. These are clearly the fruit of the decades he has spent researching, reading and thinking deeply about the nature of British settler colonies. As such, this book deserves to be widely read and is probably destined to become a classic." - Bain Attwood, Monash University, Journal of Social History
"Price successfully brings together a wide range of secondary sources along with illustrative episodes from primary sources to form a well-written and cohesive narrative of the contingency of early nineteenth-century Australasian society and the centrality of Indigenous people to colonial life, and I highly recommend it as a starting point for anyone venturing into the subject, a textbook for undergraduate students studying settler colonialism, or a state-of-the-field refresher for more seasoned academics." - Darren Reid, Coventry University, H-Net
