Aborigines In Colonial Victoria 1835-86 (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
In the shadow of colonial expansion, Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835–86 presents a rigorous and unflinching account of the catastrophic encounter between European settlers and the Indigenous peoples of Victoria across five decades of transformative and often brutal history. M. F. Christie chronicles the systematic dispossession, cultural disruption, and political marginalisation endured by Aboriginal communities as the colony of Victoria took shape, drawing on a wealth of historical records to reconstruct lives and policies that mainstream histories have long overlooked. The work details the mechanisms of colonial governance — from the establishment of protectorates to the operations of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines — illuminating how institutional power shaped and constrained Indigenous existence. Christie writes with scholarly precision and moral seriousness, situating the Victorian experience within the broader framework of British colonial ideology and its devastating human consequences. The result is an indispensable work of Australian social and political history that argues, implicitly but powerfully, for the centrality of Aboriginal experience in any honest reckoning with the nation's past. For readers seeking to understand how a continent was remade and at what cost, this volume offers answers that are as sobering as they are essential.
Author: M. F. Christie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Sydney University Press
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
In the shadow of colonial expansion, Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835–86 presents a rigorous and unflinching account of the catastrophic encounter between European settlers and the Indigenous peoples of Victoria across five decades of transformative and often brutal history. M. F. Christie chronicles the systematic dispossession, cultural disruption, and political marginalisation endured by Aboriginal communities as the colony of Victoria took shape, drawing on a wealth of historical records to reconstruct lives and policies that mainstream histories have long overlooked. The work details the mechanisms of colonial governance — from the establishment of protectorates to the operations of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines — illuminating how institutional power shaped and constrained Indigenous existence. Christie writes with scholarly precision and moral seriousness, situating the Victorian experience within the broader framework of British colonial ideology and its devastating human consequences. The result is an indispensable work of Australian social and political history that argues, implicitly but powerfully, for the centrality of Aboriginal experience in any honest reckoning with the nation's past. For readers seeking to understand how a continent was remade and at what cost, this volume offers answers that are as sobering as they are essential.