Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

Bruce Buchan

Empire of Political Thought

Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

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Empire of Political Thought investigates how European colonists in Australia represented the indigenous peoples they found there, and how they governed them using Western political thought. Buchan argues that an ideological framework drawn from Western traditions rendered indigenous peoples familiar to Europeans. Rather than effacing indigenous difference, colonists employed a conceptual language that recognised those differences but assimilated them and rendered them as deficiencies.
This is the first study to link the imperial government in Australia with comparative colonial contexts in North America. The contemporary relevance of this book is underscored by the continuing efforts of Indigenous peoples in Australia and elsewhere to articulate their visions of political and cultural self-government and self-determination.

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Empire of Political Thought

Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-16

1 - Savagery, Civilization and Political Thought
pp 17-32

2 - ‘Trafficking’ for Empire: Commerce, Consent and Colonization
pp 33-52

3 - Difficult Subjects
pp 53-74

4 - The Subject of War
pp 75-98

5 - Fit for Society
pp 99-118

6 - Liberalism, Self-Government and the Ethnography of ‘Primitive Society’
pp 119-140

Conclusion: After the Tide of History, Reconciliation?
pp 141-150

Notes
pp 151-222

Works Cited
pp 223-260

Index
pp 261-262

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