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dc.contributor.authorBuchan, Bruce
dc.contributor.editorM. Kishlansky
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:24:41Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:24:41Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2009-11-04T06:17:28Z
dc.identifier.issn14780542
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00392.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/16052
dc.description.abstractIt will be argued in this article that British colonial authorities in Australia employed a framework of concepts, ideas and assumptions then current in European thought in their efforts to translate the difference of the Indigenous inhabitants to the terms of European familiarity. This framework was also buttressed by a previous extensive experience of colonial diplomacy and trade in North America. By drawing on these intellectual and experiential sources, colonisers in Australia sought to represent the Indigenous inhabitants as 'savage'- lacking their own property rights or sovereignty. Some historians in Australia have focussed most attention on the concepts of legal thought - notably terra nullius- in seeking to explain the colonial dispossession of Indigenous peoples. A more potent if long neglected source for this dispossession, I argue, lies in the ways that Europeans thought about and practiced trade or 'traffick'.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing
dc.publisher.placeOxford
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom386
dc.relation.ispartofpageto405
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHistory Compass
dc.relation.ispartofvolume5
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.titleTraffick of Empire: Trade, Treaty and Terra Nullius in Australia and North America, 1750-1800
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2007 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBuchan, Bruce A.


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