White Flour, White Power - From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia

Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people in Central Australia! arguing that it was a fundamental! though flexible! instrument of colonial government. Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study! Rowse develops a new narrative of the colonisation of Central Australia. Inhaltsverzeichnis A theatre of stages; Part I: 1. Rationing the inexplicable; 2. Rationed actors; Part II: 3. Rural central Australia, 1914-40; 4. Town, cash and supervision; 5. 'A Christian cannot be a parasite'; 6. The World War in town and hinterland; Conclusion: Indigenous welfare at mid-century; Part III: 7. 'Assimilation; 8. The crisis of managed consumption; 9. Settlements and families; 10. Alice Springs and its town camps; Continuities.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Rowse, Rowse Tim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521523271
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52327-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Indigenous Peoples, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history