Settler colonial governance in nineteenth-century Victoria / edited by Leigh Boucher and Lynette Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boucher, Leigh, 1979-

Contributor:

Boucher, Leigh, 1979- editor.

Russell, Lynette, editor.

Series:

Aboriginal History Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Victoria--Government relations--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Government policy--Australia--Victoria--History.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--Australia--Victoria--History.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2015

Acton, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. 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 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Maps and Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Colonial history, postcolonial theory and the 'Aboriginal problem' in colonial Victoria

'Tickpen', 'Boro Boro': Aboriginal economic engagements in early Melbourne

'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

The 1869 Aborigines Protection Act: Vernacular ethnography and the governance of Aboriginal subjects

'They formed a little family as it were': The Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1875-1883)

Managing mission life, 1869-1886

6. Photography, authenticity and Victoria's Aborigines Protection Act (1886)

Women, authority and power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria, 1880-1910

How different was Victoria? Aboriginal 'protection' in a comparative context

The 'Minutes of Evidence' project: Creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past, present and future.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

1-925022-35-8

OCLC:

902612798

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_569095