Empire, Kinship and Violence

Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842

AvElizabeth Elbourne

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Empire, Kinship and Violence traces the history of three linked imperial families in Britain and across contested colonial borderlands from 1770 to 1842. Elizabeth Elbourne tracks the Haudenosaunee Brants of northeastern North America from the American Revolution to exile in Canada; the Bannisters, a British family of colonial administrators, whistleblowers and entrepreneurs who operated across Australia, Canada and southern Africa; and the Buxtons, a family of British abolitionists who publicized information about what might now be termed genocide towards Indigenous peoples while also pioneering humanitarian colonialism. By recounting the conflicts that these interlinked families were involved in she tells a larger story about the development of British and American settler colonialism and the betrayal of Indigenous peoples. Through an analysis of the changing politics of kinship and violence, Elizabeth Elbourne sheds new light on transnational debates about issues such as Indigenous sovereignty claims, British subjecthood, violence, land rights and cultural assimilation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-08
Mått:152 x 230 x 25 mm
Vikt:654 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Perspectives on Empire
Antal sidor:446
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108749497

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Elizabeth Elbourne is Associate Professor at McGill University. Her previous publications include Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions and the Contest for Christianity in Britain and the Eastern Cape, 1799-1852 (2003) and Sex, Power, and Slavery (2014), co-edited with Gwyn Campbell.

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'Elbourne's exploration of settler colonialism at Britain's 'imperial meridian' is magisterial in scope and execution. Via the sprawling Brant, Bannister and Buxton families, Elbourne expertly connects colonial violence both to economic exploitation and to humanitarian moralising in revolutionary America, the new Antipodean colonies, West Africa and metropolitan Britain.' Zoë Laidlaw, University of Melbourne

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. 'Kinship, violence and the colonial state'; Part I. North America: 1. Before the revolution: belonging and un-belonging in American-Haudenosaunee borderlands; 2. All the king's men: kinship and the American revolution; 3. Land, identity and Indigenous sovereignty in British North America, 1783-1820; Part II. Upper Canada, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, Western Australia, the Cape Colony, Sierra Leone: 4. Upper Canada: Haudenosaunee land claims and the politics of expertise; 5. New South Wales: Frontier warfare and the 'rule of British law'; 6. Southern Africa: Protest, petitions and the paradoxes of imperial liberalism; 7. From Sierra Leone to Swan River: The Bannisters' imperial world; Part III. Britain, the Cape Colony, West Africa: 8. Colonial sins and Priscilla Buxton's quest for virtue; 9. Keeping colonialism in the family: humanitarianism, empire and the Niger Expedition; Conclusion.