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Study finds metabolic deficiencies among migrant settlers in colonial Australia

In one of the first studies of its kind, Australian scientists have investigated the health and economic status of a group of migrant settlers to colonial South Australia from an examination of ...
heraldsun.com.au

First look into South Australia’s early Irish Catholics settlers’ lives

AN archaeological dig in SA’s Mid North has dug up remarkable artefacts of the state’s earliest Irish settlers, revealing new facts about their hard life. Flinders University archeology PhD student ...
insider.si.edu

Possessing the Pacific : land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska / Stuart Banner

Introduction: The Pacific World and Its Atlantic Antecedents -- 1. Australia: Terra Nullius by Design -- 2. New Zealand: Conquest by Contract -- 3. New Zealand: Conquest by Land Tenure Reform -- 4.
JSTOR Daily

In an Impaired State: Settler Racial Logic and Prosthetic Citizenship in Australia

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 33, No. 4, The Figure of the Citizen in Times of Crisis (December 2020), pp. 477-494 (18 pages) This paper connects two seemingly distinct ...
The Christian Century

Settler colonialism discourse and how it falls short

The standard version of colonialism, explains Adam Kirsch in his provocative and important new book, involves a relatively small group of colonists—mostly colonial administrators, merchants, and ...