The empire of political thought
Subtitle: indigenous Australians and the language of colonial government
By: by Bruce Buchan
Series: Empires in perspective -- no. 6
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Brookfield, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781851969258
Subjects: Racism in language; Aboriginal Australians; Government relations; Treatment of Aboriginal Australians
Description: A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the imperial government of Indigenous peoples.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-259) and index.

Mode of access: Internet.