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Governing natives : indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia's north / Ben Silverstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverstein, Ben, author.
- Series:
- Studies in imperialism.
- Manchester Studies in Imperialism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--History.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Government relations.
- Aboriginal Australians--Government policy--History--20th century.
- Aboriginal Australians--Politics and government.
- Decolonization--Australia.
- Decolonization.
- Postcolonialism--Australia--History.
- Postcolonialism.
- Imperialism--British.
- Imperialism.
- Northern Territory--Politics and government--20th century.
- Northern Territory.
- Australia--Politics and government--1901-1945.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Examines both the turn to indirect rule as a way of mediating and resolving some of the contradictions that had tended to crisis, and the way both indirect rule and settler colonialism were transformed by this new political dispensation.
- Contents:
- 1. Strehlow's problem: colonial transformations and a governmental event
- 2. The political organisation of the British in their Empire, 1875-1939: transforming indirect rule
- 3. Reporting on the northern contradiction: conflict and crisis, 1918-45
- 4. Thomson in Canberra: anthropologising Aborigines
- 5. Native administration in the northern territory: a white minority in the national community
- 6. From a white Australia to an Aboriginal New Deal
- 7. The long march: work and the ends of settler colonialism
- 8. Never yet: the tense of citizenship.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526100054
- 1526100053
- OCLC:
- 1266751198
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