On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:11 PM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Anyone who is in Brighton, England this Thursday is welcome to come along
> to a talk on the history of the Aborigines’ Protection Society. Details
> Here:
> http://www.thebrightonsalon.**com/ <http://www.thebrightonsalon.com/>
>
> This is the book, I am talking about: http://www.amazon.co.uk/**
> Aborigines-Protection-Society-**Humanitarian-Imperialism/dp/**1849041202<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aborigines-Protection-Society-Humanitarian-Imperialism/dp/1849041202>
>
> And this is the blurb:
>
> For more than 70 years, the Aborigines’ Protection Society, a select group
> of the great and the good, fought for the natives of the British Empire and
> against the tide of white supremacy to defend the interests of aboriginal
> peoples everywhere. Active on four continents, the Society brought the Zulu
> King Cetshwayo to meet Queen Victoria, and Maori rebels to the Lord Mayor’s
> banqueting hall. The Society’s supporters were denounced by senior British
> Army Officers and white settlers as Zulu-lovers, ‘so-called friends of the
> aborigines’, and even traitors.
>
> James Heartfield discusses the arguments in his new book that the failure
> of today’s ‘humanitarian imperialism’ has its roots in the thinking and
> practices of nineteenth-century campaigners for natives’ rights.
>
> The book tells the story of the three-cornered fight among the Colonial
> Office, the settlers and the natives that shaped the Empire and the pivotal
> role that the Society played, persuading the authorities to limit settlers’
> claims in the name of native interests. Against expectations, the policy of
> native protection turned out to be one of the most important reasons for the
> growth of Imperial rule
>
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> And published by Columbia U. Press in October
>
>
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