Indigenous Networks Mobility, Connections and Exchange [Hardcover]

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, exchanges and mobility for Indigenous peoples, this work engages closely with some of the key historical scholarship on transnationalism and the networks of European imperialism. Chapters deploy a range of analytic scales, including global, regional and intra-Indigenous networks, and methods, including histories of ideas and cultural forms and biography, as well as exploring contemporary legacies. In drawing these perspectives together, this book charts an important new direction in research.

Introduction: Indigenous Networks: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Connections  Jane Carey and Jane Lydon  Part I: Imperial Networks from the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Colonial Governance, Humanitarianism and Indigenous Experience  1. The Slave-Owner and the Settler  Catherine Hall  2. Indigenous Engagements with Humanitarian Governance: The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines and Humanitarian Space   Alan Lester  3. The Lying Name of Government : Empire, Mobility and Political Rights  Ann Curthoys  Part II: Mobility, Hybridity and Networks: Indigenous Lives and Legacies  4. The Singular Transcultural Space : Networks of Ships, Mariners, Voyagers and Native Men at Sea, 17901870  Lylƒ"