ABSTRACT
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical actors who were involved in the implementation of protective policy, who served as its intermediaries on the ground, or who responded as its intended "beneficiaries." These included metropolitan and colonial administrators, Protectors or similar agents, government interpreters and church-affiliated missionaries, settlers with economic investments in the politics of conciliation, and the Indigenous peoples who were themselves subjected to colonial policies. Drawing out some of the interventions and encounters lived out in the name of protection, the book examines some of the critical roles it played in the making of colonial relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
The Conception and Circulation of ‘Aboriginal Protection’
chapter 2|18 pages
Culture and Policies
chapter 3|20 pages
‘The British Government Is Now Awaking’
chapter 4|19 pages
Philanthropy or Patronage?
part II|77 pages
Interpreting Protection on the Ground
chapter 6|18 pages
Spanning Two Worlds
chapter 8|19 pages
Systematic Colonisation and Protection in Western Australia
chapter 9|20 pages
Protecting the Protectors
part III|75 pages
Refashioning Protection