In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia’s Northern Territory. By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public power, and legitimacy, they re-thought the scope of settler colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context. -- .
| ISBN: | 9781784995263 |
| Publication date: | 16th October 2018 |
| Author: | Ben Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of History, Australian National University Silverstein |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Imperialism |
| Genres: |
Colonialism and imperialism Australasian and Pacific history |