The Aborigines' Protection Society
Subtitle: humanitarian imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836-1909
By: James Heartfield
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780231702362; 9780231800242
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain); Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How the abolition of slavery changed Britain's empire; title: The select committee on aborigines; title: The Aborigines' Protection Society; title: An empire to protect the aborigines; title: The society and public opinion; title: Conflict with the colonists; title: Understanding the natives; title: The Aborigines' Protection Society's work in the field; title: Australia and the first aborigines' protectorate; title: New Zealand and the Maoris; title: Fiji and the Western Pacific; title: The Indians of North America; title: Colonising southern Africa; title: For and against Leopold's Congo.