Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index
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Creating settler society : an introduction -- Settler family networks, imperial connections -- Systematic colonization : from south Australia to Australind -- Settler men as masters of labour : convicts and non-white workers -- Responsible government in an imperial context -- Settler women, work, and debating the gender of citizenship -- Frontier violence and political manhood -- The Australian colonies and imperial crises : the Indian 'Mutiny' and the 'Maori Wars' -- In conclusion : staking claims to land, labour, and self-government
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government