Colonial frontiers : indigenous-European encounters in settler societies

著者

• Russell, Lynette

書誌事項

Colonial frontiers : indigenous-European encounters in settler societies

edited by Lynette Russell

（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001

• : hardback

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Cross-cultural encounters produce boundaries and frontiers. This book explores the formation, structure, and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. The southern nations of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have a common military heritage as all three united to fight for the British Empire during the Boer and First World Wars. The book focuses on the southern latitudes and especially Australia and Australian historiography. Looking at cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies, the book illuminates the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between settler societies and indigenous groups. It contends that the frontier zone is a hybrid space, a place where both indigene and invader come together on land that each one believes to be their own. The best way to approach the northern Cape frontier zone is via an understanding of the significance of the frontier in South African history. The book explores some ways in which discourses of a natural, prehistoric Aboriginality inform colonial representations of the Australian landscape and its inhabitants, both indigenous and immigrant. The missions of the London Missionary Society (LMS) in Polynesia and Australia are examined to explore the ways in which frontiers between British and antipodean cultures were negotiated in colonial textuality. The role of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand society is possibly the most important and controversial issue facing modern New Zealanders. The book also presents valuable insights into sexual politics, Aboriginal sovereignty, economics of Torres Strait maritime, and nomadism. -- .

目次

• Acknowledgments
• 1. The space in between: and introduction - Lynette Russell
• 2. The Northern Cape frontier zone in South African frontier historiography - Nigel Penn
• 3. Time after time: Temporal frontiers and boundaries in colonial images of the Australian landscape - Rod Macnell
• 4. Antipodean heathens: The London Missionary society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-1850 - Anna Johnston
• 5. Martyrs and messengers: Benjamin Franklin and the American frontier, the Moravians, and the nature of reason - Ron Southern
• 6. The fluid frontier: Central Queensland 1845 -1863 - Luke Godwin
• 7. 'The final legal frontier': The Treaty of Waitangi and the creation of legal boundaries between Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand society - Grant Morris
• 8. Handkerchief diplomacy: E.J. Eyre and sexual politics on the South Australian frontier - Kay Schaffer
• 9. Beyond the frontier: possibilities and precariousness along Australia's southern coast - Juile Evans
• 10. Torres Strait Islanders and the maritime frontier in early colonial Australia - Ian J. McNiven
• 11. Nomadic landscapes and the colonial frontier: The problem of nomadism in German South West Africa - John K. Noyes
• 12. All's not quiet on the Western Front - rethinking resistance and frontiers in Aboriginal historiography - Nathan Wolsk
• index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA52559170
• ISBN:
  • 0719058597
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Manchester,New York
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 247 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Colonies -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Human geography
  • LCSH : Indigenous peoples -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Europe -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA04290573