Empire, kinship and violence : family histories, indigenous rights and the making of settler colonialism, 1770-1842

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Auteur principal : Elbourne Elizabeth (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Empire, kinship and violence : family histories, indigenous rights and the making of settler colonialism, 1770-1842 / Elizabeth Elbourne,...
Publié : Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, Port Melbourne [etc.] : Cambridge University Press , 2023
Description matérielle : 1 volume (XIII-431 pages)
Collection : Critical perspectives on empire
Sujets :
  • Introduction: kinship, violence and the colonial state
  • Part I. North America : 1. Before the Revolution: belonging and un-belonging in British-Haudenosaunee borderlands
  • 2. All the King's men: kinship and the American Revolution
  • 3. Land, identity and Indigenous sovereignty in British North America, 1783-1820
  • Part II. Upper Canada, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, Western Australia, the Cape Colony, Sierra Leone : 4. Upper Canada: Haudenosaunee land claims and the politics of expertise
  • 5. New South Wales: frontier violence and the 'rule of British law'
  • 6. Southern Africa: protest, petitions and the paradoxes of imperial liberalism
  • 7. From Sierra Leone to Swan River: the Bannisters' imperial world
  • Part III. Britain, the Cape Colony, West Africa : 8. Colonial sins and Priscilla Buxton's quest for virtue
  • 9. Keeping colonialism in the family: kinship, humanitarianism and the Niger expedition
  • Conclusions