A Higher Authority : Indigenous transnationalism and Australia

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Costa, Ravindra Noel John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians.

Human rights.

Transnationalism.

Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights--Australia.

Australia--Race relations.

Australia.

Local Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians.

Human rights.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This important book recovers the long tradition of indigenous transnationalism - contact with external people, institutions, ideas - throughout Australia's history from before white settlement to the present.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Foreword and acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE Transnationalism before the nation-state; TWO Civilising the colonials; THREE Human rights for indigenous Australians; FOUR Radical transnationalism; FIVE Indigenous peoples and internationalinstitutions; SIX Domesticating indigenouspolitics in the era of globalisation; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4294-1079-5

0-86840-066-1

OCLC:

171556294