Amanda Nettelbeck: 3 books
Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood
Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The nineteenth-century policy of 'Aboriginal protection' has usually been seen as a fleeting initiative of...
Fragile Settlements
Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of trans-colonial history, Indigenous Studies, and the socio-legal history of the British Empire.
Out of the Silence
The history and memory of South Australia's frontier wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would...