Taking liberty : Indigenous rights and settler self-government in colonial Australia, 1830-1890 / An...
Taking liberty : Indigenous rights and settler self-government in colonial Australia, 1830-1890 / An...
Taking liberty : Indigenous rights and settler self-government in colonial Australia, 1830-1890 / Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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English
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1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: how settlers gained self-government and indigenous people (almost) lost it; Part I. A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples: 1. Colonialism and catastrophe: 1830; 2. 'Another new world inviting our occu...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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At 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 col...
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Taking liberty : Indigenous rights and settler self-government in colonial Australia, 1830-1890 / Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell. [electronic resource]
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Critical perspectives on empire
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Sep 2018).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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74VKaz0VAb3l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0VAb3l
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ISBN
1-108-65315-4
1-108-58128-5
1-316-02703-1
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323.1199/15009034
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991024402506502626
