Angela Woollacott teaches and supervises in the fields of Australian and British Empire history, gender, settler colonialism, transnational history, and biography. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001); Gender and Empire (2006); and Race and the Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display (2011).

• Introduction ; 1. Settler Family Networks, Imperial Connections ; 2. Systematic Colonization: From South Australia to Australind ; 3. Settler Men as Masters of Labour: Convicts and Nonwhite Workers ; 4. Responsible Government in Imperial Context ; 5. Settler Women, Work and Debating the Gender of Citizenship ; 6. Frontier Violence and Political Manhood ; 7. The Australian Colonies and Imperial Crises: The Indian 'Mutiny' and the 'Maori Wars' ; Conclusion

With considerable authority, Angela Woollacott's Settler Society in the Australian Colonies points the way for a new generation ... the book is a concise, useful, fresh, and often original summary of a vast and difficult topic

Angela Woollacott teaches and supervises in the fields of Australian and British Empire history, gender, settler colonialism, transnational history, and biography. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001); Gender and Empire (2006); and Race and the Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display (2011).

• Introduction ; 1. Settler Family Networks, Imperial Connections ; 2. Systematic Colonization: From South Australia to Australind ; 3. Settler Men as Masters of Labour: Convicts and Nonwhite Workers ; 4. Responsible Government in Imperial Context ; 5. Settler Women, Work and Debating the Gender of Citizenship ; 6. Frontier Violence and Political Manhood ; 7. The Australian Colonies and Imperial Crises: The Indian 'Mutiny' and the 'Maori Wars' ; Conclusion

With considerable authority, Angela Woollacott's Settler Society in the Australian Colonies points the way for a new generation ... the book is a concise, useful, fresh, and often original summary of a vast and difficult topic

Angela Woollacott teaches and supervises in the fields of Australian and British Empire history, gender, settler colonialism, transnational history, and biography. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001); Gender and Empire (2006); and Race and the Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display (2011).

• Introduction ; 1. Settler Family Networks, Imperial Connections ; 2. Systematic Colonization: From South Australia to Australind ; 3. Settler Men as Masters of Labour: Convicts and Nonwhite Workers ; 4. Responsible Government in Imperial Context ; 5. Settler Women, Work and Debating the Gender of Citizenship ; 6. Frontier Violence and Political Manhood ; 7. The Australian Colonies and Imperial Crises: The Indian 'Mutiny' and the 'Maori Wars' ; Conclusion

With considerable authority, Angela Woollacott's Settler Society in the Australian Colonies points the way for a new generation ... the book is a concise, useful, fresh, and often original summary of a vast and difficult topic