By Julie Evans, Patricia Grimshaw, David Phillips
This e-book makes a speciality of the ways that the British settler colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa handled indigenous peoples relating to political rights, starting with the imperial rules of the 1830s and finishing with the nationwide political settlements in position via 1910. Drawing on quite a lot of resources, its comparative method presents an perception into the ancient foundations of present-day controversies in those settler societies.
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56. , p. 49. [ 38 ] I M P E R I A L E X PA N S I O N A N D I T S C R I T I C S 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 This point was made powerfully, again by Lieutenant-Governor Stockenstrom, in relation to his recommended ways of dealing with the Xhosa on the eastern frontier of the Cape: ‘the main point I would have in view would be trade, commerce, peace and civilization. The other alternative is extermination; for you can stop nowhere; you must go on; you may have a short respite when you have driven panic into the people, but you must come back to the same thing until you have shot the last man’: Report, British Parliamentary Papers (1836), vol.
Laidlaw, ‘Integrating Metropolitan, Colonial and Imperial Histories: The Aborigines Select Committee of 1835–37’, in Tracey Banivanua-Mar and Julie Evans (eds), Writing Colonial History (Melbourne: RMIT Publishers, 2002); Alan Lester, Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain (London: Routledge 2001), pp. 106–23; R. Milliss, Waterloo Creek. The Australia Day Massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British Conquest of New South Wales (Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, 1992), pp.
Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines’ Friend, October (1911), pp. 106–7. Ibid. For summaries of early settlement in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, see the chapters by Ken Coates, Henry Reynolds and M. P. K. ), Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand (Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 123–80. For a general history see J. R. Miller, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian–White Relations in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000 [1989]).
