Unsettled Subjects

Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor of History at the University of Adelaide. Her last book Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (2019) won the 2020 Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Legal History Prize. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

• Part I. British Subjects and Others in a Porous Empire (1835–1855): 1. Restructuring the empire after slavery; 2. Fashioning the empire's newest subjects: Indigenous and indentured peoples in the imperial gaze; 3. Bridging the settler and plantation colonies: Indian labour emigration and the politics of settlerism; 4. Governing British subjects and 'others': the Chinese diaspora in the British Asia Pacific; 5. Everyday citizens: colonial civic life in the age of settler sovereignty; Part II. Citizenship Practices in the Settler State (1870–1903); 6. Mobile citizens: 'mobility sovereignty', settler domesticity and the hawker debates; 7. De facto citizens: accessing justice in the settler state.

'Unsettled Subjects shows brilliantly just how differently Australian history is being written today. In place of the imperial and national histories of old, we have here a deft exploration of citizenship, belonging, and racial exclusion set in a very wide framework indeed. Students of Australian colonial history and specialist historians of race, colonialism, and empire alike will enjoy this book.' Ann Curthoys, Australian National University