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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.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: Flowers for the Bride
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Perfect Marriage?
Part 1. Secrets of New Nations
1. Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot: Against History?
2. Ernest Gribble and Jeannie
Part 2. Marriage and Modernity among the Cherokees
3. Socrates, Cherokee Sovereignty, and the Regulation of White Men
4. John Ross and Mary Bryan Stapler
Part 3. Queensland’s Marital Middle Ground
5. Husbands under Surveillance
6. Consent and Aboriginal Wives
Part 4. Embodying New Worlds
7. Polygamy’s New Worlds
8. Entwined Sovereignties and the Great Unwedding
Epilogue: Transnational Families
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
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.
