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1 online resource |
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data file |
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Fiction |
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Free online access ; OAPEN.
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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.
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Aboriginal Australians. |
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Australia. |
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Victoria. |
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History. |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy. |
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of. |
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Victoria -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Politics and government. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
Indexed Term |
australia. |
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colonialism. |
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aboriginal history. |
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victoria. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Added Author |
Boucher, Leigh, 1979- editor.
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Russell, Lynette, editor.
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Other Form: |
Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Settler colonial governance in nineteenth-century Victoria |
ISBN |
9781925022353 (electronic book) |
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1925022358 (electronic book) |
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192502234X |
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9781925022346 |
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9781925022346 |
Standard No. |
10.26530/OAPEN_569095 |
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