Setting Up Boundaries in Colonial Australia: Race and Empire

dc.contributor.authorDoust, Janet
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:11:08Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T08:26:16Z
dc.description.abstractIn the 1830s and 1840s a racist labour immigration policy for New South Wales developed out of responses in the Colonial Office and the colony to proposals for the importation of indentured Indian labourers. Race, culture and willingness to work under conditions tantamount to slavery were thought to distinguish Asians from Britons. Temperate climates in Australia were to be British settler colonies, while tropical areas were to be plantation colonies, worked by non-European labourers. This paper examines the construction of racist imperial immigration policies and their implications for the colonies in eastern Australia.
dc.identifier.issn1031-461X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/87462
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceAustralian Historical Studies
dc.titleSetting Up Boundaries in Colonial Australia: Race and Empire
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage166
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage152
local.contributor.affiliationDoust, Janet, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidDoust, Janet, u4003226
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor210303 - Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub16756
local.identifier.citationvolume123
local.identifier.doi10.1080/10314610408596279
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-61149630552
local.type.statusPublished Version

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