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Informationen zum Autor Ann McGrath is a professor of history and the director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including How to Write History That People Want to Read; Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration; and Contested Ground: A History of Australian Aborigines under the British Crown. McGrath won the 2016 John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland for research and writing Australian history. Klappentext Ann McGrath is a professor of history and the director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including How to Write History That People Want to Read; Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration; and Contested Ground: A History of Australian Aborigines under the British Crown.¿McGrath won the 2016 John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland for research and writing Australian history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPreface: Flowers for the BrideAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Perfect Marriage?Part 1. Secrets of New Nations1. Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot: Against History?2. Ernest Gribble and JeanniePart 2. Marriage and Modernity among the Cherokees3. Socrates, Cherokee Sovereignty, and the Regulation of White Men4. John Ross and Mary Bryan StaplerPart 3. Queensland’s Marital Middle Ground5. Husbands under Surveillance6. Consent and Aboriginal WivesPart 4. Embodying New Worlds7. Polygamy’s New Worlds8. Entwined Sovereignties and the Great UnweddingEpilogue: Transnational FamiliesNotesBibliographyIndex
