Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769–1840

Rachel Standfield

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 they occurred.

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Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769–1840

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

CONTENTS
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

List of Figures
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-20

1 - ‘These Warlike People’: Violence, Imperial Ethnography and Depictions of Māori Sovereignty on the Endeavour Voyage
pp 21-40

2 - ‘We See this Country in the Pure State Of Nature’: Discourses of Blackness, Absence and Imperial Possibility
pp 41-60

3 - ‘They Would Speedily Abandon the Country’: Reading Land and Resistance at the Time of First Settlement
pp 61-82

4 - ‘A Valuable and Beneficial Article’: The Expansion of British Imperialism in the Tasman World
pp 83-98

5 - ‘A Few Blankets … would Greatly Relieve their Wants’: Samuel Marsden in New South Wales
pp 99-116

6 - ‘The Finest and Noblest Race Of Heathens’: The New Zealand Mission and Racial Thought in the Tasman World
pp 117-138

7 - ‘An Incontrovertible Right to their own Soil’: Land, Race and the Humanitarian Evaluation of Empire
pp 139-162

8 - ‘That Innocent Commerce’: The Aborigines Committee Report's Policy Recommendations and the Unexpected Outcomes of Empire
pp 163-178

Conclusion
pp 179-184

Notes
pp 185-212

Works Cited
pp 213-226

Index
pp 227-234

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