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Machine generated contents note: 1. Protection and the ends of colonial governance; 2. Creating Aboriginal subjects of the Crown; 3. Distinctive designs: local arenas of protection; 4. Protector magistrates: mediating labour and law; 5. Intimate encounters with protection; 6. Recasting protection from rights to surveillance; Conclusion: protection and reform in the British Empire.

The rise and fall of humanist imperial policy across Britain's nineteenth-century empire has received considerable attention in terms of how the principles of Indigneous protection that underpinned the 1837 Report from the House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines fared as a governmental imperative to meet the obligations of humane colonisation. In particular, scholars have examined the gulf between the theory and the practice of protectionist policy as an Indigenous legal right, the tensions between metropolitan initiatives to protect subject peoples and the neglect of those initiatives by local governments and settler lobbies, and the transition of protectionist agendas from an earlier model of Indigenous "amelioration" to a later model of Indigenous governance and surveillance. In comparison to the uses and failures of protection as a mechanism of colonial governmentality, less attention has been given to the strategic value that the humanitarian politics of protection, with its rhetoric of obligation and solicitude, might have held for Indigenous peoples. Within the comparative framework of nineteenth-century Australia and Canada, this paper will consider some of the contexts in which Indigenous people enlisted the humanitarian agendas and rhetoric of protection in encounters with representatives of the British Crown. As emergent British settler states, nineteenth-century Australia and Canada represent divergent ends of colonial governmental efforts to bring Indigenous people within the Crown's jurisdiction. In much of what is now Canada, treaties were signed between Indigenous peoples and the Crown. They endorsed a principle that resources would be exchanged for the Crown's protection, although in the years that followed, many of the expectations established by treaties would be disappointed. In Australia, the absence of treaty negotiations, and the subsequent violence that followed the path of settlement wherever it went, made the promise of the Crown's protection a significantly ineffectual concept from the outset. Yet even if being within the Crown's protection had little practical purchase in a daily sense, there were times when Aboriginal people found cause to enlist their status as the Crown's subjects to call upon its obligations and sympathies. In different settings and across different times, their strategic engagements with the humanitarian politics of protection have much to say both about practical tensions in colonial conceptions of humane governance, and about the degrees of agency Indigenous people could deploy in asserting a political place within the colonial order.

The history of colonial policing has received considerable scholarly attention in terms of its function to extend and consolidate the legal jurisdiction of British rule over colonised territories and populations. This paper compares some of the complex roles played by Indigenous people who were employed primarily as "trackers" and "scouts" within mounted police forces on Australia's and Canada's settler frontiers. A comparative picture of indigenous participation in policing reveals parallels in colonial decision-making that went beyond local conditions, but also illuminates the different pressures of local conditions which affected the value of Indigenous auxiliaries to mounted police. These not only provide insight into the motivations of colonial authorities in enlisting indigenous people into policing networks, but also into how Indigenous people influenced the rule of law into which they were co-opted.

Imagining protection in the Antipodean colonies : actors, agency and governance / Samuel Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck -- Culture and policies : Sir George Grey, protection and the early nineteenth-century empire / Richard Price -- "The British government is now awaking" : how humanitarian Quakers repackaged and circulated the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines / Penelope Edmonds and Zoë Laidlaw -- Philanthropy or patronage? : aboriginal protectors in the Port Phillip District and Western Australia / Samuel Furphy -- Protective governance and legal order on the colonial frontier / Amanda Nettelbeck -- Spanning two worlds : protection, assimilation and the role of Edward Meurant, government interpreter, New Zealand, 1840-1851 / Shaunnagh Dorsett -- Edward Shortland and the protection of Aborigines in New Zealand, 1840-1846 / Marjan Lousberg -- Systematic colonisation and protection in Western Australia : the origin and nature of John Hutt's colonial governance of aboriginal people / Ann Hunter -- Protecting the protectors : evaluating the agency of missionary-protectors in the new settlements of Adelaide and Melbourne, 1838-1840 / Skye Krichauff -- A short and simple provisional code : the pastoralist as "protector" / Tim Rowse -- Lawful conduct, aboriginal protection and land in Victoria, 1859-1869 / Joanna Cruikshank and Mark McMillan -- Robert John Sholl : protection "Pilbara-style" / Malcolm Allbrook - "Protection talk" and popular performance : The wild Australia Show on tour, 1892-1893 / Maria Nugent.

"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "Editors and Contributors" -- "List of Figures" -- "'Savage Wars of Peace': Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World " -- "Colonial Conquest and (Cultural) Elimination" -- "Strategies of Colonial Control" -- "In the Aftermaths of Colonial Violence" -- "Part I Colonial Violence and 'Ways of Seeing'" -- "The Psychology of Colonial Violence " -- "Colonial Violence" -- "Anxiety and Fear" -- "Liberal Empire and Violence" -- "Colonial Violence and the Picturesque " -- "Warscapes of 'the Carnatic'" -- "Men of 'Polite Imagination'" -- "Warscapes of 'Ceylon'" -- "Categories of Conquest and Colonial Control: The French in Tonkin, 1884–1914 " -- "The Limits to French Power in Tonkin" -- "An Ambiguous Enemy" -- "Chinese Deserters, Bandits, Pirates, and Violence After Pacification" -- "The Language of Conquest and the Violence of Colonialism" -- "Part II Colonial Authority and the Violence of Law" -- "Martial Law in the British Empire " -- "Origins of Martial Law" -- "Martial Law in the British Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" -- "Discussion" -- "Characteristics" -- "Conclusion" -- "Flogging as Judicial Violence: The Colonial Rationale of Corporal Punishment " -- "The Decline and Return of Flogging in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire" -- "Flogging as 'Merciful Policy' in Late Colonial Western Australia" -- "Conclusion" -- "Seeing like a Policeman: Everyday Violence in British India, c. 1900–1950 " -- "Mapping Communities" -- "Coercion on the Beat" -- "Conclusion" -- "Part III Dynamics of Colonial Warfare" -- "The Dynamics of British Colonial Violence " -- "The Perak War, 1875–1876" -- "The 'Hut Tax' War, Sierra Leone, 1898" -- "The Anglo-Egyptian War of Reconquest in Sudan, 1896–1899" -- "The 'Man on the Spot' and the Escalation of Violence

1. 'Savage Wars of Peace': Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World; Philip Dwyer and Amanda Nettelbeck.- Colonial Violence and 'Ways of Seeing'.- 2. The Psychology of Colonial Violence; Richard N. Price -- 3. Colonial Violence and the Picturesque; Elizabeth Mjelde -- 4. Categories of Conquest and Colonial Control: The French in Tonkin, 1884-1914; James R. Lehning -- Colonial Authority and the Violence of Law.- 5. Martial Law in the British Empire; Lyndall Ryan -- 6. Flogging as Judicial Violence: The Colonial Rationale of Corporal Punishment; Amanda Nettelbeck -- 7. Seeing Like a Policeman: Everyday Violence i n British India, c. 1900-1950; Radha Kumar.- Dynamics of Colonial Warfare.- 8. The Dynamics of British Colonial Violence; Michelle Gordon -- 9. Disciplining Native Masculinities: Colonial Violence in the 'Land of the Pirate and the Amok'; Jialin Christina Wu -- 10. Fascist Violence and the 'Ethnic Reconstruction' of Cyrenaica (Libya), 1922-34; Michael R. Ebner.- Repression and Resistance.- 11. Contesting Colonial Violence in New Caledonia; Adrian Muckle -- 12. From Liberation to Elimination: Violence and Resistance in Japan's Southeast Asia, 1942-1945; Kelly Maddox -- 13. Nothing to Report? Challenging Dutch Discourse on Colonial Counterinsurgency in Indonesia, 1945-1949; Bart Luttikhuis and C.H.C. Harinck.

Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies. Extending a reading of 'economies' as labour relations into new arenas, this innovative collection of essays examines new understandings of the nexus between violence and intimacy in settler colonial economies of the British Pacific Rim. The sites it explores include cross-cultural exchange in sealing and maritime communities, labour relations on the frontier, inside the pastoral station and in the colonial home, and the material and emotional economies of exploration. Following the curious mobility of texts, objects, and frameworks of knowledge, this volume teases out the diversity of ways in which violence and intimacy were expressed in the economies of everyday encounters on the ground. In doing so, it broadens the horizon of debate about the nature of colonial economies and the intercultural encounters that were enmeshed within them.--

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. Bringing together scholars from around the world, the book includes chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies and conquests. It considers multiple experiences of colonial violence, ranging from political dispute to the non-lethal violence of everyday colonialism and the symbolic repression inherent in colonial practices and hierarchies. These comparative case studies show how violence was used to assert and maintain control in the colonies, contesting the long held view that the colonial project was of benefit to colonised peoples.

"Fragile Settlements compares the processes through which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. As a humanitarian response led to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain's Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book examines the tensions and contradictions that emerged as colonial actors and institutions--including government officials, police, courts, churches, and philanthropic organizations--interpreted and applied the principle of law in their interactions with Aboriginal peoples on the ground. As a comparative work, Fragile Settlements highlights important parallels and divergences in the histories of law and Indigenous-settler relations across the Anglo-colonial world. It questions the finality of settler colonization and contributes to ongoing debates around jurisdiction, sovereignty, and the prospect of genuine Indigenous-settler reconciliation in Canada and Australia."--