In Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835, Annemarie McLaren re-tells key elements of the foundational story of Australia: the meeting between Indigenous people and colonists and the entangled world that resulted. She does so through a nuanced and peopled narrative account that is novel in its focus on tracing objects and its deep readings of people and episodes. With fresh attention on Indigenous perspectives, its claims about the extent of diplomacy and negotiation, and its vivid, engaging style, Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835 will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as a global academic community in the fields of history and empire, literary critics, Indigenous studies scholars, cultural anthropologists, students at a tertiary level, and art historians, archivists, and those working in collecting institutions more broadly such as museums, libraries, and galleries.
By:
Annemarie McLaren (Lecturer Lecturer University of Notre Dame)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 163mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 655g
ISBN: 9780198943426
ISBN 10: 0198943423
Series: The Past and Present Book Series
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 27 November 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part 1: A Protean World 1: Reading the Entangled life of Goggey 2: The Politics of the Feast Part 2: Entangled, Entangling Objects 3: Clothing in Inter-cultural Worlds 4: Breastplates and the Negotiation of Authority 5: Skin Cloaks, Colonial Blankets and Clan Diplomacy Part 3: Colonialism's Co-Creations 6: Early Aboriginal Guiding, 1791 7: Joint Travelling Ventures, 1801 8: Colonising Cullunghutti, 1822 Conclusion Bibliography
Annemarie McLaren studied history at the University of Sydney before completing her doctorate at the Australian National University. She has undertaken research fellowships at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge), the Omohundro Institute (Virginia) and Griffith University (Brisbane) and has had this research funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Australian Historical Association. She is a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
