Table of Contents

Introduction, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 1 ‘These Warlike People’: Violence, Imperial Ethnography and Depictions of M?ori Sovereignty on the Endeavour Voyage, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 2 ‘We See This Country in the Pure State of Nature’: Discourses of Blackness, Absence and Imperial Possibility, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 3 ‘They Would Speedily Abandon the Country’: Reading Land And Resistance at The Time of First Settlement, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 4 ‘A Valuable and Beneficial Article’: The Expansion of British Imperialism in the Tasman World, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 5 ‘A Few Blankets … Would Greatly Relieve their Wants’: Samuel Marsden in New South Wales, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 6 ‘The Finest and Noblest Race of Heathens’: The New Zealand Mission and Racial Thought in the Tasman World, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 7 ‘An Incontrovertible Right to Their Own Soil’: Land, Race and the Humanitarian Evaluation of Empire, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 8 ‘That Innocent Commerce’: The Aborigines Committee Report’s Policy Recommendations and the Unexpected Outcomes of Empire, Rachel Standfield; Chapter 102 Conclusion, Rachel Standfield;

About the Author

Rachel Standfield