Book contents
- Taking Liberty
- Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Taking Liberty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries, and Indigenous Peoples
- 1 Colonialism and Catastrophe, 1830
- 2 ‘Another New World Inviting Our Occupation’
- 3 Settlers Oppose Indigenous Protection, 1837–1842
- 4 A Colonial Conundrum
- 5 Who Will Control the Land? Colonial and Imperial Debates, 1842–1846
- Part II Towards Self-Government
- Part III Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People, 1856–c.1870
- Part IV Self-Government for Western Australia
- Conclusion
- Index
2 - ‘Another New World Inviting Our Occupation’
Colonisation and the Beginnings of Humanitarian Intervention, 1831–1837
from Part I - A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries, and Indigenous Peoples
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2018
Book contents
- Taking Liberty
- Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Taking Liberty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries, and Indigenous Peoples
- 1 Colonialism and Catastrophe, 1830
- 2 ‘Another New World Inviting Our Occupation’
- 3 Settlers Oppose Indigenous Protection, 1837–1842
- 4 A Colonial Conundrum
- 5 Who Will Control the Land? Colonial and Imperial Debates, 1842–1846
- Part II Towards Self-Government
- Part III Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People, 1856–c.1870
- Part IV Self-Government for Western Australia
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Could colonisation and Aboriginal protection ever be reconciled? The 1830s saw the rapid and often violent seizure of Aboriginal lands, and early attempts at containing Aboriginal people on missions and government stations like Flinders Island. However, this was also an era when British policy making was strongly influenced by humanitarian and Evangelical advocacy, which raised grave concerns about the impacts of dispossession and called for a paternalistic "civilising" approach instead. This was at the same time as British administrators and Australian colonists were debating the approaches to colonialism that would be right for the Australian territories, where convict transportation and the fast spread of pastoralism clashed with Wakefieldian principles of concentrated settlements of free colonists. Both models, however, depended upon the seizure of Aboriginal land, with devastating consequences for the original owners.
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- Taking LibertyIndigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890, pp. 48 - 71Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018