![]() ![]() Managing mission life, 1869–188 (PDF, 171KB) – Claire McLisky (with Lynette Russell and Leigh Boucher) doi.‘They formed a little family as it were’: The Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1875–1883) (PDF, 1.5MB) – Samuel Furphy doi.The 1869 Aborigines Protection Act: Vernacular ethnography and the governance of Aboriginal subjects (PDF, 1.7MB) – Leigh Boucher doi.‘Thus have been preserved numerous interesting facts that would otherwise have been lost’: Colonisation, protection and William Thomas’s contribution to (PDF, 437KB) – Rachel Standfield doi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Tickpen’, ‘Boro Boro’: Aboriginal economic engagements in early Melbourne (PDF, 950KB) – Lynette Russell doi.Introduction: Colonial history, postcolonial theory and the ‘Aboriginal problem’ in colonial Victoria (PDF, 276KB) – Leigh Boucher and Lynette Russell.To copy a chapter DOI link, right-click (on a PC) or control+click (on a Mac) and then select ‘Copy link location’. If your web browser doesn't automatically open these files, please download a PDF reader application such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. – Patrick Wolfeįor more information on Aboriginal History Inc. Though the collection wears its politics openly, it does so lightly and without jeopardising fidelity to its sources. Empirically, contributors have trawled an impressive array of archival sources, both standard and relatively unknown, bringing a fresh eye to bear on what we thought we knew but would now benefit from reconsidering. Theoretically, it engages knowledgeably but not uncritically with a broad range of influences, including postcolonialism, the new imperial history, settler colonial studies and critical Indigenous studies. This is a timely, astutely assembled and well nuanced collection that combines theoretical sophistication with empirical solidity. The volume heralds a new, spatially aware, movement within Australian history writing. It is characterised by an awareness of colonial Australia’s positioning within broader imperial circuits through which key personnel, ideas and practices flowed, and also by ‘local’ settler society’s impact upon, and entanglements with, Aboriginal Australia. This is a quite distinctive development shaped by the aftermath of the history wars within Australia and through engagement with the ‘new imperial history’ of Britain and its empire. It is no exaggeration to say that the work on colonial Victoria represented here is in the vanguard of what we might see as a ‘new Australian colonial history’. This collection carefully traces the emergence and enactment of this ‘model’ in the years after colonial separation, the idiosyncrasies of its application and the impact it had on Aboriginal lives. Colonial historians have frequently asserted that the management and control of Aboriginal people in colonial Victoria was historically exceptional by the end of the century, colonies across mainland Australia looked to Victoria as a ‘model’ for how to manage the problem of Aboriginal survival. This collection represents a serious re-examination of existing work on the Aboriginal history of nineteenth-century Victoria, deploying the insights of postcolonial thought to wrench open the inner workings of territorial expropriation and its historically tenacious variability. ![]()
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