Empire, Kinship and Violence

ISBN-13: 9781108479226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 345 str.

Montreal) Elbourne Elizabeth (McGill University

Opis

An ambitious account of Indigenous-settler relationships and struggles over Indigenous rights in British white settler colonies from the 1770s to 1830s.

Recenzje

'In this exemplary transnational history, Elizabeth Elbourne provides a creative and devastating account of the linkages between family, intimacy and colonial violence in the British Empire. Focusing on the Brant, Bannister, and Buxton families, Elbourne demonstrates the intertwining of humanitarianism and colonialism during the first half of the nineteenth century and offers a model of how an analytic focus on family sheds new light on indigenous and settler histories as well as colonialism itself. Highly recommended.' Pamela Scully, Emory University

Spis treści

Introduction. 'Kinship, violence and the colonial state'; Part I. North America: 1. Before the revolution: belonging and un-belonging in American-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 warfare 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: humanitarianism, empire and the Niger Expedition; Conclusion.