Indigenous rights and colonial subjecthood : protection and reform in the nineteenth-century British empire / Amanda Nettelbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nettelbeck, Amanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History 19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The nineteenth-century policy of 'Aboriginal protection' has usually been seen as a fleeting initiative of imperial humanitarianism, yet it sat within a larger set of legally empowered policies for regulating new or newly-mobile colonised peoples. Protection policies drew colonised peoples within the embrace of the law, managed colonial labour needs, and set conditions on mobility. Within this comparative frame, Nettelbeck traces how the imperative to protect indigenous rights represented more than an obligation to mitigate the impacts of colonialism and dispossession. It carried a far-reaching agenda of legal reform that arose from the need to manage colonised peoples in an Empire where the demands of humane governance jostled with colonial growth.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Protection and the ends of colonial governance; 2. Creating Aboriginal subjects of the Crown; 3. Distinctive designs: local arenas of protection; 4. Protector magistrates: mediating labour and law; 5. Intimate encounters with protection; 6. Recasting protection from rights to surveillance; Conclusion: protection and reform in the British Empire.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Mar 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-69136-6

1-108-55922-0

1-108-60429-3