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Title Settler colonial governance in nineteenth century Victoria / Leigh Boucher and Lynette Russell (editors).

Publication Info. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource
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Fiction
Series Free online access ; OAPEN.
Contents Introduction: colonial history, postcolonial theory and the 'Aboriginal problem' in colonial Victoria -- 1. 'Tickpen', 'Boro Boro': Aboriginal economic engagements in early Melbourne -- 2. 'Thus have been preserved numerous interesting facts that would otherwise have been lost': colonisation, protection and William Thomas's contribution to The Aborigines of Victoria -- 3. The 1869 Aborigines Protection Act: vernacular ethnography and the governance of Aboriginal subjects -- 4. 'They formed a little family as it were': The Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1875-1883) -- 5. Managing mission life, 1869-1886 -- 6. Photography, authenticity and Victoria's Aborigines Protection Act (1886) -- 7. Women, authority and power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria, 1880-1910 -- 8. How different was Victoria? Aboriginal 'protection' in a comparative context -- 9. The 'minutes of Evidence' project: creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past, present and future.
Summary This collection represents a serious re-examination of existing work on the Aboriginal history of nineteenth-century Victoria, deploying the insights of post-colonial thought to wrench open the inner workings of territorial expropriation and its historically tenacious variability. Russell at Monash Uni and Boucher at Macquarie Uni.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Government relations -- History.
Aboriginal Australians.
Australia.
Victoria.
History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Victoria -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800-1899
Indexed Term australia.
colonialism.
aboriginal history.
victoria.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Boucher, Leigh, 1979- editor.
Russell, Lynette, editor.
Other Form: Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Settler colonial governance in nineteenth-century Victoria
ISBN 9781925022353 (electronic book)
1925022358 (electronic book)
192502234X
9781925022346
9781925022346
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_569095