{"product_id":"taking-liberty-indigenous-rights-and-settler-self-government-in-colonial-australia-1830-1890-paperback-9781107446847","title":"Taking Liberty; Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107446847","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTaking Liberty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIndigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnn Curthoys (Author), Jessie Mitchell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107446847, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 May 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e446 pages, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This landmark book traces a vital shift in the histories of liberty and unfreedom across the Australian colonies in the mid nineteenth century, for the first time interrogating how responsible government and the gaining of democratic rights and freedoms for settlers gave rise to violent and oppressive degrees unfreedom for Indigenous peoples. A must read for all historians of Australia and of settler colonialism.' Penelope Edmonds, University of Tasmania\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAt last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with these new political institutions. It is, essentially, a bringing together of two histories that have hitherto been told separately: one concerns the arrival of early democracy in the Australian colonies, as white settlers moved from the shame and restrictions of the penal era to a new and freer society with their own institutions of government; the other is the tragedy of indigenous dispossession and displacement, with its frontier violence, poverty, disease and enforced regimes of mission life.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: how settlers gained self-government and indigenous people (almost) lost it\u003cbr\u003e Part I. A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples: 1. Colonialism and catastrophe: 1830\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Another new world inviting our occupation': colonisation and the beginnings of humanitarian intervention, 1831–1837\u003cbr\u003e 3. Settlers oppose indigenous protection: 1837–1842\u003cbr\u003e 4. A colonial conundrum: settler rights versus indigenous rights, 1837–1842\u003cbr\u003e 5. Who will control the land? Colonial and imperial debates 1842–1846\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Towards Self-Government: 6. Who will govern the settlers? Imperial and settler desires, visions, utopias, 1846–1850\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'No place for the sole of their feet': imperial-colonial dialogue on Aboriginal land rights, 1846–1851\u003cbr\u003e 8. Who will govern Aboriginal people? Britain transfers control of Aboriginal policy to the colonies, 1852–1854\u003cbr\u003e 9. The dark side of responsible government? Britain and indigenous people in the self-governing colonies, 1854–1870\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People, 1856–c.1870: 10. Ghosts of the past, people of the present: Tasmania\u003cbr\u003e 11. 'A refugee in our own land': governing Aboriginal people in Victoria\u003cbr\u003e 12. Aboriginal survival in New South Wales\u003cbr\u003e 13. Their worst fears realised: the disaster of Queensland\u003cbr\u003e 14. A question of honour in the colony that was meant to be different: Aboriginal policy in South Australia\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Self-Government for Western Australia: 15. 'A little short of slavery': forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia 1856–1884\u003cbr\u003e 16. 'A slur upon the colony': making Western Australia's unusual constitution, 1885–1890\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structures: democracy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structures: democracy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structures:%20democracy%20%5BJPHV%5D%22\"\u003eJPHV\u003c\/a\u003e], Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Colonialism%20\u0026amp;%20imperialism%20%5BHBTQ%5D%22\"\u003eHBTQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Australasian \u0026amp; Pacific history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Australasian \u0026amp; Pacific history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Australasian%20\u0026amp;%20Pacific%20history%20%5BHBJM%5D%22\"\u003eHBJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913239552280,"sku":"9781107446847","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107446847i.jpg?v=1696754296","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/taking-liberty-indigenous-rights-and-settler-self-government-in-colonial-australia-1830-1890-paperback-9781107446847","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}