Colonial Formations

Jane Carey teaches and researches across settler colonial, women’s and Indigenous histories at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the editor of Re-Orienting Whiteness (2009), Creating White Australia (2009), and Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange (2014). Frances Steel teaches and researches Pacific and colonial history at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the author of Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870–1914 (2011) and editor of New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives (2018).

Introduction: on the critical importance of colonial formations

Jane Carey and Frances Steel

1. The New South Wales Bar and Aboriginal people: making Aboriginal subjects c. 1830–1866

Paula Jane Byrne

2. ‘A walk for our race’: colonial modernity, Indigenous mobility and the origins of the Young Māori Party

Jane Carey

3. Potter v. Minahan: Chinese Australians, the law and belonging in White Australia

Kate Bagnall

4. The ‘Chinese’ always belonged

Peter Prince

5. ‘I am a British subject’: Indians in Australia claiming their rights, 1880–1940

Margaret Allen

6. Servant mobilities between Fiji and New Zealand: the transcolonial politics of domestic work and immigration restriction, c.1870–1920

Frances Steel

7. Anticolonialism and the politics of friendship in New Zealand’s Pacific

Nicholas Hoare

8. The politics of friendship and cosmopolitan thought zones at the end of empire: Indian women’s study tours to Europe 1934–38

Jane Haggis