Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769–1840 (Empires in Perspective)

British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence had particular consequences for land ownership. Standfield examines these differences and how they occurred. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 'These Warlike People': Violence, Imperial Ethnography and Depictions of Māori Sovereignty on the Endeavour Voyage 2 'We See this Country in the Pure State Of Nature': Discourses of Blackness, Absence and Imperial Possibility 3 'They Would Speedily Abandon the Country': Reading Land and Resistance at the Time of First Settlement 4 'A Valuable and Beneficial Article': The Expansion of British Imperialism in the Tasman World 5 'A Few Blankets ... would Greatly Relieve their Wants': Samuel Marsden in New South Wales 6 'The Finest and Noblest Race Of Heathens': The New Zealand Mission and Racial Thought in the Tasman World 7 'An Incontrovertible Right to their own Soil': Land, Race and the Humanitarian Evaluation of Empire 8 'That Innocent Commerce': The Aborigines Committee Report's Policy Recommendations and the Unexpected Outcomes of Empire Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index "British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence - such as 'warrior race' or 'unoffending people' - had particular consequences for land ownership. Whilst the Maori of New Zealand were understood to be sovereign owners of their country, Australian Aboriginals were not. Standfield examines these differences and how the occurred."--Publisher's information