Governing Savages: Commonwealth and Aboriginies, 1911-39

ISBN-13: 9780044421504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str.

Andrew Markus

Opis

This provocative study breaks new ground. It argues that, in a period dominated by the white Australia ideal, the nation's political leaders were content to allow disease and malnutrition, as well as punitive police raids, to ravage the Aboriginal population of the Northern Territory, and that for decades there was a failure to provide funding to implement publicly announced policies. Written for a general readership, "Governing Savages" explains how such a state of affairs could arise and be tolerated in a professedly humane society. The result of almost a decade of research by one of the leading scholars in the field of Australian race relations, the book analyzes the attitudes of pastoralists, missionaries, administrators, judges, and politicians and of thoseincluding Aboriginal leadersseeking to awaken the conscience of Australians and bring to an end generations of brutality and callous indifference."

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Protecting Aborigines

2 The colour of money

3 Nature, not nurture

4 Pastoralists

5 Missionaries

6 The Chief Protector

7 The judge

8 The bureaucrat

9 The Minister of the Crown

10 The anthropologist

11 The humanitarian lobby

12 Aboriginal voices

Endnotes

Select Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Andrew Markus, a leading scholar of race relations, teaches at Monash University. His most recent publication is Blood from a Stone, a collection of the letters of the Aboriginal activist William Cooper.