Books written by Jane Lydon

  • Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

    Blakely, J., and Toombs, L. 1980. The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi. Cambridge: American Schools of Oriental Research. Conder, C., and Kitchner, H. 1881. The Survey of Western Palestine. London: Palestine Exploration ...

  • Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?

    Exemplifying this bleak view, Johnson admonished his convict audience in 1792 that he must express my fear, that those of you, who are thus convinced of sin, and converted to God, and reformed from your evil courses, are comparatively ...

  • Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

    ... of New South Wales Press, 2002); David Dutton, Citizenship in Australia: A Guide to Commonwealth Government Records, (Canberra: National Archives of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, 2000). 5 James Curran and Stuart Ward, ...

  • Eye Contact

    Offering close readings of the photographs in the context of Australian history and nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century photographic practice, Jane Lydon reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these ...

  • Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

    as community archaeology (Marshall 2002), but I would suggest that their goals are similar and they both deserve being considered as distinct from public archaeology and its discontents as practiced in the United States.

  • Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange

    ... Hall, Lester and Curthoys focus on the mid-nineteenth century as a critical period for the formation of connections, and sometimes surprising disconnections, around Indigenous policy and humanitarian imperial networks.

  • Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

    This essential handbook explores the relationship between the postcolonial critique and the field of archaeology, a discipline that developed historically in conjunction with European colonialism and imperialism.

  • Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians

    An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just...

  • Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre Lyndall Ryan

    ... Savage Songs and Wild Romances, p. 138. John O'Leary, 'Speaking the Suffering Indigene: “Native” Songs and Laments', Kunapipi, vol. 31, no. 1, 2009, pp. 47–60. 'Domestic Intelligence: New Music', Sydney Herald, 18 April 1842, p. 2 ...

  • Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

    ... Concentration Camps'. History and Memory 12, no. 1 (2000): 135-50. Brock, Peggy. Outback Ghettos. A History of Aboriginal Institutionalisation and Survival. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Brock, Peggy, and Doreeh ...

  • Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

    ... The Bell Sounds Pleasantly: Ebenezer Mission Station. Doncaster: Luther Rose Publications, 1992. Robin, L. Defending the Little Desert: The Rise ofEcological Consciousness in Aus— tralia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998 ...

  • Calling the shots: Indigenous photographies

    Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were produced in unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants, who see them in distinctive and positive ways.