Empire, kinship and violence : family histories, indigenous rights and the making of settler colonialism, 1770-1842

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Empire, kinship and violence : family histories, indigenous rights and the making of settler colonialism, 1770-1842

Title remainder

family histories, indigenous rights and the making of settler colonialism, 1770-1842

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Elbourne

Creator

• Elbourne, Elizabeth

Subject

• Great Britain -- Colonies | History -- 18th century
• Great Britain -- Colonies | History -- 19th century
• Imperialism -- History -- 18th century
• Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
• Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights
• British -- Foreign countries -- History

Language

eng

Summary

Empire, Kinship and Violence traces the history of three linked imperial families in Britain and across contested colonial borderlands from 1770 to 1842. Elizabeth Elbourne tracks the Haudenosaunee Brants of northeastern North America from the American Revolution to exile in Canada; the Bannisters, a British family of colonial administrators, whistleblowers and entrepreneurs who operated across Australia, Canada and southern Africa; and the Buxtons, a family of British abolitionists who publicized information about what might now be termed genocide towards Indigenous peoples while also pioneering humanitarian colonialism. By recounting the conflicts that these interlinked families were involved in she tells a larger story about the development of British and American settler colonialism and the betrayal of Indigenous peoples. Through an analysis of the changing politics of kinship and violence, Elizabeth Elbourne sheds new light on transnational debates about issues such as Indigenous sovereignty claims, British subjecthood, violence, land rights and cultural assimilation.--

Member of

• Critical perspectives on empire

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Critical perspectives on empire
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks