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Capitalists and labourers have long been regarded among the great antagonists of Australian historiography. Yet where the latter has been subjected to constant analysis by successive generations of historians, the formation of 'the capitalist' has received scant attention. This article reassesses this figure as a discrete colonial type, not as the ubiquitous owner of the means of production, but as a conflicted and contested subject of imperial transformation. By layering a series of perspectives on the capitalist as a category of government, a model of calculative skill and parsimonious morality, as a contested popular discourse, and whose relations were structured by the 'inherent hierarchy of money', this reassessment also offers fresh perspectives on the processes of settler capitalism. It highlights the social, political and technological linkages that promoted valuation, investment and wealth accumulation as intrinsic to Australian settlement and the credit-money relations that made settler expansion dynamic but fragile.

Vol. 15 has added t.-p.: New York state archives. New York in the revolution. ; Vol. 14 has added t.-p.: Documents relating to the history of the early colonial settlements, principally on Long Island . ; Vol. 13 has added t.-p.: Documents relating to the history . of the towns along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers . ; Vol. 12 has special t.-p. only: Documents relating to the history of the Dutch and Swedish settlement on the Delaware River . ; Vols. 13-15 have title: Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New York . ; Vol. 12 has imprint: Albany, The Argus company. ; Vol. 11 is a general index to the documents. ; Vols. 12-15, compiled, edited, and the foreign documents translated by B. Fernow. ; Vols. 1-11, edited, and the French and Dutch manuscripts translated, by E. B. O'Callaghan. ; Vols. 1-10 by John Romeyn Brodhead. ; v.1-10. Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New York; procured in Holland, England and France by John Romeyn Brodhead . agent, under . an act of the Legislature passed May 2, 1839 . With a general introduction by the agent: v.1-2, Holland documents, 1856-58; v.3-8, London documents, 1853-57; v.9-10, Paris documents, 1855-58. -- v.[11] General index to the documents . [v.1-10] Prepared by E. B. O'Callaghan. 1861. -- v.12 [new ser., v.1] Documents relating to the history of the Dutch and Swedish settlements of the Delaware River. 1877. -- v.13 [new ser., v.2] Documents relating to the history and settlements of the towns along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers (with the exception of Albany), from 1630 to 1684 . 1881. -- v.14 [new ser., v.3] Documents relating to the history of the early colonial settlements principally on Long Island . 1883. -- v.15 New York state archives [v.1] New York in the revolution: prepared under the direction of the Board of regents, by Berthold Fernow, 1887- ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Rare Book copy: Wanting v. 15

Indigenous curricula content, including particular narratives of Australian colonial history are highly contested in contemporary Australia. How do white Australians understand Australia's colonial past and its relevance today? An empirical study was conducted with 29 rural Australians who self-identified as white. Critical race and whiteness studies provided the framework for analysis of the interviews. I argue that they revealed a delimited understanding of colonial history and a general inability to link this to the present, which limited their capacity to think crossculturally in their everyday living - activities considered crucial in the contemporary move to Reconciliation in Australia. The normative discourse of white settler Australians to be 'Australian' is invested in the denial of Indigenous sovereignty to protect white settler Australian claims to national sovereignty. The findings support arguments for a national curriculum that incorporates Indigenous history as well as an Indigenous presence throughout all subject areas.

The present study is an endeavor to explore the unrevealed colonial history of oppression and immigration in nineteenth century India, presented in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, the first volume of Ibis trilogy. Colonization, a system of political, economic, psychological and cultural domination, always gives birth to a pattern of cultural and political marginalization of the colonized country. Colonial or imperial rule is a situation which in terms of the relationship between indigenous peoples and the colonizers means a consistently maintained distance and difference. Colonialism attains a historical specificity, noting particularly the impact it had and continues to have on all societies across the world. Amitav Ghosh is a novelist with an extraordinary sense of history and place. He is a contemporary IndianEnglish novelist like Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Seth, Mukul Kessavan, Gita Mehta, Allen Sealy etc., who combines his professional skills as social historian with literary flair to create works of art, concerned with civilization and history. Ghosh's novels probe the ideology of colonialism in its various shades. The heroes and heroines of Ghosh's novels are the native of India, Burma, Malaya, South Africa and Ghosh narrates the tragedy and triumph of these people against the backdrop of colonial history. His novels are considered 'meditation on colonialism' concentrating unexplored underbelly of the British Empire. This statement is applicable to all his works including Sea of Poppies where hitherto unrevealed aspects of colonial oppression are exposed through the illegal business of opium

This study endeavours to expand our knowledge on the role of colonial history, socialist history, religion, and legal systems in explaining the size of the shadow economy across countries. Empirical analysis is carried out for a global sample of 148 countries from 2002 to 2017. Besides formal institutional quality, four other factors of institutions such as colonial history, dominant religion, socialist or socialist history, and origin of the legal system. First, formal institutions are reaffirmed as important factors in reducing the shadow economy. Second, colonial history, socialist history, religion, and legal systems are found to be critical in explaining persistent differences in the size of the shadow economy between countries. Specifically, after controlling for key determinants of the shadow economy, countries with one dominant religion, socialist history, mixed legal system, or common law system appear to have higher levels of shadow economy. In contrast, countries with a colonial history or civil law system seem to have lower levels. Third, there are some heteroscedastic effects of other determinants on the shadow economy in colonial history, socialist history, religion and legal systems. Last, the role of colonial history, socialist history, religion, and legal systems in clarifying the size of the shadow economy seems to be heteroscedastic across seven regions.

This article discusses how language textbooks may be fruitful for the study of popular geopolitics. It contains a comparative analysis of two textbooks used in lower secondary education in Denmark: A Piece of Cake and Français Formidable. Their representations of the world and their narratives of colonial history are very different in many respects (apart from the obvious differences related to the different geographical areas affected by British and French colonialism). In particular, their treatment of Africa is very different. The analysis draws on my book from 2018: Representations of the World in Language Textbooks. That book presents and implements a number of different theoretical approaches to the analysis of representations of the world (the entire planet) in language textbooks. Among them are the following, which are also used in this article: national studies (which countries are represented in the textbook?), transnational studies (which transnational connections are represented?) and postcolonial studies (is history, particularly (post)colonial history, represented?). In addition to the comparison itself, the article discusses the possible reasons behind the two different narratives of the world and world history. Generally, the analysis shows that it is important to be aware of the differences among the various languages in which popular geopolitics is modelled. Languages are differently positioned in the global linguistic landscape that has developed as a result of world history, and there are also different political perspectives on that.

This article explores the exhibition history of decorative shell-art objects made by Aboriginal women in southeast Australia since the late Victorian era. Although produced for over a century, Aboriginal women's 'shellwork' (as it is known) has only recently received sustained curatorial attention. During the last few decades it has been acquired by private and public collectors and exhibited in both small independent and major public art galleries and museums. The article uses the contemporary curatorial interest in Aboriginal women's shellwork as an occasion to trace a longer history of its exhibition and display. A historical view reveals the 'cultural', 'aesthetic' and 'political' work that these objects performed as they were displayed in ways designed to communicate messages about their makers and to mediate social relations under colonial conditions. Earlier histories of display and its rhetorical functions are often lost, ignored or downplayed when Aboriginal women's shellwork is exhibited within contemporary exhibition spaces; but the author suggests that there is more continuity between old and new display cultures and practices than is generally acknowledged. In light of this, the article argues for greater recognition of earlier histories of display practices and visual rhetorics to inform the contemporary interpretation and exhibition of these objects. The article concludes with a recent installation of Aboriginal women's shellwork that is suggestive of this approach.