In good faith? : governing Indigenous Australia through God, charity and empire, 1825-1855 / Jessie Mitchell
- Bib ID:
- 5036338
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mitchell, Jessie
- Online Version:
- Electronic version
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- Description:
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- Canberra : ANU E Press ; Aboriginal History Inc., ©2011
- ix, 223 p. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921862106
- Series:
- Aboriginal history monograph ; 23.
- Summary:
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In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the hands of British colonists, who largely ignored their sovereignty and even their humanity. At the same time, however, a new wave of Christian humanitarians were arriving in the colonies, troubled by Aboriginal suffering and arguing that colonists had obligations towards the people they had dispossessed. These white philanthropists raised questions which have shaped Australian society ever since. Did Indigenous Australians have rights to land, rationing, education and cultural survival? If so, how should these be guaranteed, and what would people have to give up in return? Would charity and paternalism lead to effective government or dismal failure – to a powerful defence of an oppressed people, or to new forms of oppression? In Good Faith? paints a vivid picture of life on Australia’s first missions and protectorate stations, examining the tensions between charity and rights, empathy and imperialism, as well as the intimacy, dependence, resentment and obligations that developed between missionary philanthropists and the people they tried to protect and control. In this work, Mitchell brings to life hitherto neglected moments in Australia's history, and traces the origins of dilemmas still present today.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- 'This land of Barbarians' : missions and protectorates begin
- 'Godless political experiments' : philanthropy and governance
- 'All white masters belong to your King' : race, identity and empire
- 'Our country all gone' : rights, charity and the loss of land
- Deserving poverty? : rationing and philanthropy
- Keeping body and soul together : creating material 'civilisation'
- 'Can the dry bones live?' : religious life and afterlife
- 'This bitter reproach' : destruction, guilt and the colonial future
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-223)
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet. Address as at 17/06/2011: http://epress.anu.edu.au/good_faith_citation.html.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Indigenous peoples -- Government relations
- Philanthropinism
- Colonization -- Australia
- Land rights - Ownership
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Wiradjuri people (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
- Religions - Christianity - Missionaries
- Social welfare - Rationing
- Race relations
- Australia -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- Wellington (N NSW SI55-04)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Aboriginal History Inc
- Also Titled:
- Governing Indigenous Australia through God, charity and empire, 1825-1855
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