Intimacies of violence in the settler colony : economies of dispossession around the pacific rim /: economies of dispossession around the pacific rim. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Penelope Edmonds, Amanda Nettelbeck.
• Editors: Edmonds, Penelope; Nettelbeck, Amanda
• Contents: 1 Precarious Intimacies: Cross-Cultural Violence and Proximity in Settler Colonial Economies of the Pacific Rim, Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck.- Part I: Moral Economies and Labour Relations in the Pastoral Sector.- 2 The Australian Agricultural Company, the Van Diemen's Land Company: Labour Relations with Aboriginal Landowners, 1824–1835, Lyndall Ryan.- 3 Ambiguity and Necessity: Settlers and Aborigines in Intimate Tension in Mid-nineteenth-century Australia, Angela Woollacott.- 4 Intimate Violence in the Pastoral Economy: Aboriginal Women's Labour and Protective Governance, Amanda Nettelbeck.- 5 The 'Proper Settler' and the 'Native Mind': Flogging Scandals in the Northern Territory, 1919 and 1932, Ben Silverstein.- Part II: Emotional Economies and Cultural Hybridities.- 6 Eliza Batman's House: Unhomely Frontiers and Intimate Overstraiters in Van Diemen's Land and Port Phillip, Penelope Edmonds and Michelle Berry.- 7 Women's Work and Cross-cultural Relationships on Two Female Frontiers: Eliza Fraser and Barbara Thompson in Colonial Queensland, 1836–1849, Victoria K. Haskins.- 8 'Murder will out': Intimacy, Violence and the Snow Family in Early Colonial New Zealand, Kristyn Harman.- 9 'Tangled up': Intimacy, Emotion and Dispossession in Colonial New Zealand, Angela Wanhalla and Lachy Paterson.- Part III: Economies of Colonial Knowledge.- 10 Arctic Circles: Circuits of Sociability, Intimacy and Imperial Knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818–1828, Annaliese Jacobs.- 11 Mrs Milson's Wordlist: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and the Intimacy of Linguistic Work, Anna Johnston.- 12 'A frivolous prosecution': Allegations of Physical and Sexual Abuse of Domestic Servants and the Defence of Colonial Patriarchy in Darwin and Singapore, 1880s–1930s, Claire Lowrie.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 325.3095; Colonists -- Pacific Area -- History; Violence -- Pacific Area -- History; Eviction -- Pacific Area -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319762319
• Related ISBNs: 9783319762302
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