Governing Natives - Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia''s North

This book examines both the turn to indirect rule as a way of mediating and resolving some of the contradictions that had tended to crisis, and the way both indirect rule and settler colonialism were transformed by this new political dispensation.

List of contents

Note on terms
1 Strehlow's problem: colonial transformations and a governmental event
2 The political organisation of the British in their Empire, 1875-1939: transforming indirect rule
3 Reporting on the northern contradiction: conflict and crisis, 1918-45
4 Thomson in Canberra: anthropologising Aborigines
5 Native administration in the northern territory: a white minority in the national community
6 From a white Australia to an Aboriginal New Deal
7 The long march: work and the ends of settler colonialism
8 Never yet: the tense of citizenship
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ben Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History at The Australian National University

Summary

This book examines both the turn to indirect rule as a way of mediating and resolving some of the contradictions that had tended to crisis, and the way both indirect rule and settler colonialism were transformed by this new political dispensation. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Ben Silverstein, Ben (Postdoctoral Research Fellow Silverstein
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781784995263
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-526-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous