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Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890

Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890

Author: Ann Curthoys; Jessie Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107084858
Published In: September 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with these new political institutions.

It is, essentially, a bringing together of two histories that have hitherto been told separately: one concerns the arrival of early democracy in the Australian colonies, as white settlers moved from the shame and restrictions of the penal era to a new and freer society with their own institutions of government; the other is the tragedy of indigenous dispossession and displacement, with its frontier violence, poverty, disease and enforced regimes of mission life.

Introduction: How settlers gained self-government and indigenous people (almost) lost it

Part I. A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples:

1. Colonialism and catastrophe 1830

2. 'Another new world inviting our occupation': colonisation and the beginnings of humanitarian intervention 1831–1837

3. Settlers oppose indigenous protection 1837–1842

4. A colonial conundrum: settler rights versus indigenous rights 1837–1842

5. Who will control the land? Colonial and imperial debates 1842–1846

Part II. Towards Self-Government;

6. Who will govern the settlers? Imperial and settler desires, visions, utopias 1846–1850

7. 'No place for the sole of their feet': imperial-colonial dialogue on Aboriginal land rights 1846–1851

8. Who will govern Aboriginal people? Britain transfers control of Aboriginal policy to the colonies 1852–1854

9. The dark side of responsible government? Britain and indigenous people in the self-governing colonies 1854–1870

Part III. Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People 1856–c.1870;

10. Ghosts of the past, people of the present: Tasmania

11. 'A refugee in our own land': governing Aboriginal people in Victoria

12. Aboriginal survival in New South Wales

13. Their worst fears realised: the disaster of Queensland

14. A question of honour in the colony that was meant to be different: Aboriginal policy in South Australia

Part IV. Self-Government for Western Australia;

15. 'A little short of slavery': forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia 1856–1884

16. 'A slur upon the colony': making Western Australia's unusual constitution, 1885–1890

Conclusion.;

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