Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835 - When the Strangers Came to Stay

Annemarie McLaren re-tells key elements of the foundational story of Australia: the meeting between Indigenous people and colonists and the entangled world that resulted. She does so through a nuanced and peopled narrative account that is novel in its focus on tracing objects and its deep readings of people and episodes.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part 1: A Protean World


• 1: Reading the Entangled life of Goggey


• 2: The Politics of the Feast


• Part 2: Entangled, Entangling Objects


• 3: Clothing in Inter-cultural Worlds


• 4: Breastplates and the Negotiation of Authority


• 5: Skin Cloaks, Colonial Blankets and Clan Diplomacy


• Part 3: Colonialism's Co-Creations


• 6: Early Aboriginal Guiding, 1791


• 7: Joint Travelling Ventures, 1801


• 8: Colonising Cullunghutti, 1822


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Annemarie McLaren studied history at the University of Sydney before completing her doctorate at the Australian National University. She has undertaken research fellowships at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge), the Omohundro Institute (Virginia) and Griffith University (Brisbane) and has had this research funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Australian Historical Association. She is a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Annemarie McLaren
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.07.2025
• EAN: 9780198943426
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894342-6
• Illustrations: 25 black and white images
• Series: The Past and Present Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, HISTORY / Oceania, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Relating to indigenous peoples, Australasian & Pacific history, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Australasian and Pacific history, National liberation and independence