indigenous Australians and the language of colonial government /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Bruce Buchan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Brookfield, Vt. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Pickering & Chatto,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 262 pages [1] leaf of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Empires in perspective ;
Volume Designation
no. 6
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-259) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Savagery, civilization and political thought -- 'Trafficking' for empire: commerce, consent and colonization -- Difficult subjects -- The subject of war -- Fit for society -- Liberalism, self-government and the ethnography of 'primitive society' -- Conclusion: after the tide of history, reconciliation?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Empire of Political Thought investigates how European colonists in Australia represented the indigenous peoples they found there, and how they governed them using Western political thought. Buchan argues that an ideological framework drawn from Western traditions rendered indigenous peoples familiar to Europeans. Rather than effacing indigenous difference, colonists employed a conceptual language that recognised those differences but assimilated them and rendered them as deficiencies." "This is the first study to link the imperial government in Australia with comparative colonial contexts in North America and Canada. The contemporary relevance of this book is underscored by the continuing efforts of Indigenous peoples in Australia and elsewhere to articulate their visions of political and cultural self-government and self-determination."--Jacket.