Empire and indigeneity: histories and legacies

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: problem and perspectives -- 1 Engagements -- Introduction -- Agency and engagement -- Order and disorder -- Cultural and social intimacies -- Knowledge and observation: a different eye -- Conclusion -- 2 Mentalities -- Introduction: the discourse of humanitarianism -- Culture and governance -- Sensibilities and psychology -- Anxieties -- Conclusion -- 3 Policies: conciliation and coercion -- Introduction: policies and history -- Conciliation -- Sir George Arthur and Van Diemen's Land -- The disenchantment of Sir George Arthur -- The inner turmoil of Sir George Arthur -- 4 Policies: protection -- Arthur and the history of protection -- Protection history and typologies -- Protection and governance -- The failure of Port Phillip Protectorate -- Transforming protection -- Conclusion -- 5 Policies: racial amalgamation in New Zealand -- Introduction -- Racial amalgamation in discourse and policy -- Sir George Grey and racial amalgamation -- Racial amalgamation and the law -- Land and dispossession -- The period of pre-emption: before c. 1863 -- Dispossession post-1860 -- Conclusion -- 6 Violence and the coming of colonial order -- Introduction -- The structures of violence -- The state and violence -- Salutary terror and normalization of violence -- The psychology of colonial violence: fear -- The psychology of colonial violence: blindsight and splitting -- The psychology of colonial violence: regimes of silence and denial -- The psychology of colonial violence: projections and narratives -- Conclusion -- 7 Law and sovereignty -- Introduction: law and empire -- Uncertain sovereignty: the continued importance of natural rights -- When lawlessness was the law -- Exceptionalism or assimilation?.