Precarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia.
Recent discussion in Australia has highlighted how Indigenous citizenship remains troubled by the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This article takes up a pre-history to these discussions, returning to a transitional period (1830s–1850s) in the Australian colonies when governments worked to activat...
| Published in: | Australian Historical Studies Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 330 - 354 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2023
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