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Title Indigenous networks : mobility, connections and exchange / edited by Jane Carey and Jane Lydon
Published New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages)
Series Routledge studies in cultural history ; 29
Routledge studies in cultural history ; 29.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Text; Introduction Indigenous Networks: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Connections; PART I British Imperial Networks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Colonial Governance, Humanitarianism and Indigenous Action; 1 The Slave-Owner and the Settler; 2 Indigenous Engagements with Humanitarian Governance: The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines and 'Humanitarian Space'; 3 'The Lying Name of "Government"': Empire, Mobility and Political Rights
PART II Mobility, Hybridity and Networks: Indigenous Lives and Legacies4 'The Singular Transcultural Space': Networks of Ships, Mariners, Voyagers and 'Native' Men at Sea, 1790-1870; 5 Indigenous Interlocutors: Networks of Imperial Protest and Humanitarianism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; 6 Picturing Macassan-Australian Histories: Odoardo Beccari's 1873 Photographs of the 'Orang-Mereghi' and Indigenous Authenticity; 7 'Mr. Moses Goes to England': Twentieth-Century Mobility and Networks at the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario
8 A 'Happy Blending'? Maori Networks, Anthropology and 'Native' Policy in New Zealand, the Pacific and BeyondPART III Indigenous Activist Networks: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present; 9 Contesting the Empire of Paper: Cultures of Print and Anti-Colonialism in the Modern British Empire; 10 Geographies of Solidarity and the Black Political Diaspora in London before 1914; 11 Marching to a Different Beat: The Influence of the International Black Diaspora on Aboriginal Australia; 12 Fifty Years of Indigeneity: Legacies and Possibilities
Epilogue: Indigenising Transnationalism? Challenges for New Imperial and Cosmopolitan HistoriesContributors; Index
Summary This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of ""transnational"" connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational histories: to explore the historical role of colonized and subaltern communities in these processes, and their legacies in the present. Bringing together prominent and emerging scholars who have begun to explore Indigenous networks and ""transnational"" encounters, and to consider the broader significance of ""extra-local"" connections, exchange
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Globalization -- Social aspects -- History
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- History
Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government.
Indigenous peoples -- Research
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.
Social exchange -- History
Social mobility -- History
Social networks -- History
Transnationalism -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Globalization -- Social aspects
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government
Indigenous peoples -- Research
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions
Social exchange
Social mobility
Social networks
Transnationalism
SUBJECT Europe -- Colonies -- History
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Carey, Jane, 1972-
Lydon, Jane, 1965-
ISBN 9781317659327
1317659325
1306905656
9781306905657
9781315766065
131576606X