Governing Savages

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Protecting Aborigines

2 The colour of money

3 Nature, not nurture

4 Pastoralists

5 Missionaries

6 The Chief Protector

7 The judge

8 The bureaucrat

9 The Minister of the Crown

10 The anthropologist

11 The humanitarian lobby

12 Aboriginal voices

Endnotes

Select Bibliography

Index

About the author

Andrew Markus, a leading scholar of race relations, teaches at Monash University. His most recent publication is Blood from a Stone, a collection of the letters of the Aboriginal activist William Cooper.

Summary

Governing Savages explores the value system that provided the justification for the treatment of Aborigines during the early decades of the twentieth century, and reveals how policies of brutality and calculated neglect bequeathed a bitter legacy to subsequent generations.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Markus, Markus Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718237
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71823-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Indigenous Peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity