Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession Around the Pacific Rim (Paperback)

1 Precarious Intimacies: Cross-Cultural Violence and Proximity in Settler Colonial Economies of the Pacific Rim, Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck.- Part I: Moral Economies and Labour Relations in the Pastoral Sector.- 2 The Australian Agricultural Company, the Van Diemen’s Land Company: Labour Relations with Aboriginal Landowners, 1824?1835, Lyndall Ryan.- 3 Ambiguity and Necessity: Settlers and Aborigines in Intimate Tension in Mid-nineteenth-century Australia, Angela Woollacott.- 4 Intimate Violence in the Pastoral Economy: Aboriginal Women’s Labour and Protective Governance, Amanda Nettelbeck.- 5 The ‘Proper Settler’ and the ‘Native Mind’: Flogging Scandals in the Northern Territory, 1919 and 1932, Ben Silverstein.- Part II: Emotional Economies and Cultural Hybridities.- 6 Eliza Batman’s House: Unhomely Frontiers and Intimate Overstraiters in Van Diemen’s Land and Port Phillip, Penelope Edmonds and Michelle Berry.- 7 Women’s Work and Cross-cultural Relationships on Two Female Frontiers: Eliza Fraser and Barbara Thompson in Colonial Queensland, 1836?1849, Victoria K. Haskins.- 8 ‘Murder will out’: Intimacy, Violence and the Snow Family in Early Colonial New Zealand, Kristyn Harman.- 9 ‘Tangled up’: Intimacy, Emotion and Dispossession in Colonial New Zealand, Angela Wanhalla and Lachy Paterson.- Part III: Economies of Colonial Knowledge.- 10 Arctic Circles: Circuits of Sociability, Intimacy and Imperial Knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818?1828, Annaliese Jacobs.- 11 Mrs Milson’s Wordlist: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and the Intimacy of Linguistic Work, Anna Johnston.- 12 ‘A frivolous prosecution’: Allegations of Physical and Sexual Abuse of Domestic Servants and the Defence of Colonial Patriarchy in Darwin and Singapore, 1880s?1930s, Claire Lowrie.