Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Origins and Approaches
Chapter 1-Engagement
Introduction
Agency and Engagement
Order and Disorder Cultural and Social Intimacies
Knowledge and Observation: A New Eye
Conclusion
Chapter 2-Mentalities
Introduction: The Discourse of Humanitarianism
Culture and Governance
Sensibilities and Psychology
Anxieties
Conclusion
Chapter 3-Policies and Governance: Conciliation and Coercion
Introduction: Policies and History
The Search for Conciliation
Sir George Arthur and Van Diemen's Land
The Disenchantment of Sir George Arthur
The Inner Turmoil of Sir George Arthur
Chapter 4-Policies and Governance: Protection
Sir George Arthur and the Origins of Protection
Protection: History and Typologies
The Failure of the Port Phillip Protectorate
Transforming Protection
Conclusion
Chapter 5-Policies and Governance: Racial Amalgamation
Introduction
Racial Amalgamation in Discourse and History
Sir George Grey and Racial Amalgamation
Racial Amalgamation and the Law
Land And Dispossession
The Period of Pre-emption: Before c. 1863
Dispossession: Post c. 1860
Conclusion
Chapter 6-Law and Sovereignty
Introduction: Law and Empire
Uncertain Sovereignty: The Continued Importance of Natural Rights
When Lawlessness was the Law
Exceptionalism or Assimilation?
Aboriginal Evidence and the Oath
Inter Se
Results and Consequences
Stabilization: The Emergence of Positivist Law
A New Narrative of Aboriginal Rights
Conclusion
Chapter 7-Violence and the Coming of Colonial Order
Introduction
Structures of Violence
The State and Violence
Salutary Terror: The Normalization of Violence
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Fear
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Silence and Denial
The Psychology of Colonial Violence: Projection and Narrative
Conclusion
Chapter 8-The Emergence of Settler Politics
Introduction
The Exhaustion of the Humane Policy Agenda
Settler Consciousness
Reconciling Liberalism to Empire in Political Theory
Conclusion
Chapter 9-Legacies in Indigenous Politics
Introduction: The Past in the Present
The Silences of Settler Society
The Making of Modern Indigenous Politics
Disruptions
Chapter 10-Legacies in Imperial Culture
Introduction
Humanitarian Narratives
Silences, Forgetting and Distancing
Networks
Heroes and Villains
Conclusion
Bibliography Primary Sources
Bibliography Secondary Sources
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