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Settler Society In The Australian Colonies: Self Government And Imperial CultureStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionThe 1820s to the 1860s were a foundational period in Australian history, arguably at least as important as Federation. Industrialization was transforming Britain, but the southern colonies were pre-industrial, with economies driven by pastoralism, agriculture, mining, whaling and sealing, commerce, and the construction trades. Convict transportation provided the labour on which the first settlements depended before it was brought to a staggered end, first in New South Wales in 1840 and last in Western Australia in 1868. The numbers of free settlers rose dramatically, surging from the 1820s and again during the 1850s gold rushes. The convict system increasingly included assignment to private masters and mistresses, thus offering settlers the inducement of unpaid labourers as well as the availability of land on a scale that both defied and excited the British imagination. By the 1830s schemes for new kinds of colonies, based on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's systematic colonization, gained attention and support. Author descriptionAngela Woollacott teaches and supervises in the fields of Australian and British Empire history, gender, settler colonialism, transnational history, and biography. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001); Gender and Empire (2006); and Race and the Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display (2011). Table of contentsIntroduction ; 1. Settler Family Networks, Imperial Connections ; 2. Systematic Colonization: From South Australia to Australind ; 3. Settler Men as Masters of Labour: Convicts and Nonwhite Workers ; 4. Responsible Government in Imperial Context ; 5. Settler Women, Work and Debating the Gender of Citizenship ; 6. Frontier Violence and Political Manhood ; 7. The Australian Colonies and Imperial Crises: The Indian 'Mutiny' and the 'Maori Wars' ; Conclusion |