
Governing Natives
Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North
Ben Silverstein(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 16. October 2018
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-78499-526-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory. By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public power, and legitimacy, they re-thought the scope of settler colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context. -- .
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'A short review cannot do justice to this innovative, original, and carefully researched study. Silverstein has clearly situated Australian settler colonialism and its practices towards Indigenous people within a wider imperial context.'Australian Historical Studies -- .
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English
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Manchester
United Kingdom
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78499-526-3 (9781784995263)
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Ben Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History at The Australian National University -- .
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of History, Australian National University
Content
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 -- .
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 -- .