Title from screen (viewed on 20 October 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biographical sketches of the family of Henry Charles Prinsep (1844-1922) - Introduction : an imperial man and his archive - Images of an imperial family - An Anglo-Indian community in Britain - Indian Ocean connections - Meeting Aboriginal people - 'Stationed by not sedentary' - 'Received into the very best society' - Chief Protector of Aborigines - 'Move slowly in a difficult manner' - A 'southern home'.

Mode of access: Available online. Address as at 20/10/14: ANL

http://press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/whole-new.pdf

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Henry Prinsep is known as Western Australia's first Chief Protector of Aborigines in the colonial government of Sir John Forrest, a period which saw the introduction of oppressive laws that dominated the lives of Aboriginal people for most of the twentieth century. But he was also an artist, horse-trader, member of a prominent East India Company family, and everyday citizen, whose identity was formed during his colonial upbringing in India and England. As a creator of Imperial culture, he supported the great men and women of history while he painted, wrote about and photographed the scenes around him. In terms of naked power he was a middle man, perhaps even a small man. His empire is an intensely personal place, a vast network of family and friends from every quarter of the British imperial world, engaged in the common tasks of making a home and a career, while framing new identities, new imaginings and new relationships with each other, indigenous peoples and fellow colonists. This book traces Henry Prinsep's life from India to Western Australia and shows how these texts and images illuminate not only Prinsep the man, but the affectionate bonds that endured despite the geographic bounds of empire, and the historical, social, geographic and economic origins of Aboriginal and colonial relationships which are important to this day.

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