Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

ISBN-13: 9781851969258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str.

Bruce Buchan

Opis

A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the imperial government of Indigenous peoples.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Savagery, Civilization and Political Thought; Chapter 2 ‘Trafficking’ for Empire: Commerce, Consent and Colonization; Chapter 3 Difficult Subjects; Chapter 4 The Subject of War; Chapter 5 Fit for Society; Chapter 6 Liberalism, Self-Government and the Ethnography of ‘Primitive Society’; Chapter 7 Conclusion: After the Tide of History, Reconciliation?;

O autorze

Bruce Buchan