Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood - Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies protecting the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects, whether through conciliatory, coercive or punitive measures.

List of contents

1. Protection and the ends of colonial governance; 2. Creating Aboriginal subjects of the Crown; 3. Distinctive designs: local arenas of protection; 4. Protector magistrates: mediating labour and law; 5. Intimate encounters with protection; 6. Recasting protection from rights to surveillance; Conclusion: protection and reform in the British Empire.

About the author

Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor of History at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her many publications include Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony (2018), co-edited with Penelope Edmonds, and Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (2017), co-edited with Philip Dwyer.

Summary

Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies protecting the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects, whether through conciliatory, coercive or punitive measures.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Nettelbeck, Amanda (University of Adelaide) Nettelbeck, Nettelbeck Amanda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108458382
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45838-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, British Empire, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Indigenous Peoples, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Australasian & Pacific history, Civil rights & citizenship, Australasian and Pacific history, Civics and citizenship