Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
 Precarious Intimacies: Cross-Cultural Violence and Proximity in Settler Colonial Economies of the Pacific Rim  (Penelope Edmonds, Amanda Nettelbeck)....Pages 1-21
Front Matter ....Pages 23-23
 The Australian Agricultural Company, the Van Diemen’s Land Company: Labour Relations with Aboriginal Landowners, 1824–1835  (Lyndall Ryan)....Pages 25-43
 Ambiguity and Necessity: Settlers and Aborigines in Intimate Tension in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia  (Angela Woollacott)....Pages 45-65
 Intimate Violence in the Pastoral Economy: Aboriginal Women’s Labour and Protective Governance  (Amanda Nettelbeck)....Pages 67-87
 The ‘Proper Settler’ and the ‘Native Mind’: Flogging Scandals in the Northern Territory, 1919 and 1932  (Ben Silverstein)....Pages 89-112
Front Matter ....Pages 113-113
 Eliza Batman’s House: Unhomely Frontiers and Intimate Overstraiters in Van Diemen’s Land and Port Phillip  (Penelope Edmonds, Michelle Berry)....Pages 115-137
 Women’s Work and Cross-Cultural Relationships on Two Female Frontiers: Eliza Fraser and Barbara Thompson in Colonial Queensland, 1836–1849  (Victoria K. Haskins)....Pages 139-158
 ‘Murder Will Out’: Intimacy, Violence, and the Snow Family in Early Colonial New Zealand  (Kristyn Harman)....Pages 159-177
 ‘Tangled Up’: Intimacy, Emotion, and Dispossession in Colonial New Zealand  (Angela Wanhalla, Lachy Paterson)....Pages 179-199
Front Matter ....Pages 201-201
 Arctic Circles: Circuits of Sociability, Intimacy, and Imperial Knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818–1828  (Annaliese Jacobs)....Pages 203-223
 Mrs Milson’s Wordlist: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and the Intimacy of Linguistic Work  (Anna Johnston)....Pages 225-247
 ‘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)....Pages 249-272
Back Matter ....Pages 273-285