White Flour, White Power (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521624572)

This book focuses on the colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people, arguing that much of the colonial experience in Central Australia can be understood by seeing rationing as a fundamental, though flexible, instrument of colonial government. Rationing was the material basis for a variety of colonial ventures: scientific, evangelical, pastoral and the postwar program of "assimilation." Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study of rationing, this book develops a new narrative of the colonization of Central Australia.

Author: Tim Rowse
ISBN-10: 0521624576
ISBN-13: 9780521624572
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/28/1998
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d