Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses, and the Imperial Press - Couverture rigide

Storey, Kenton

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0774829478 ISBN 13 : 9780774829472

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2016

Synopsis

During the 1850s and 1860s, there was considerable anxiety among British settlers over the potential for Indigenous rebellion and violence. Yet, publicly admitting to this fear would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial superiority. In this fascinating book, Kenton Storey challenges the idea that a series of colonial crises in the mid-nineteenth century led to a decline in the popularity of humanitarianism across the British Empire. Instead, he demonstrates how colonial newspapers in New Zealand and on Vancouver Island appropriated humanitarian language as a means of justifying the expansion of settlers' access to land, promoting racial segregation and allaying fears of potential Indigenous resistance.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kenton Storey is a historian of the British Empire and a legal researcher working in the field of First Nations history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774829478
• ISBN 13: 9780774829472
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
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