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Book Review: The nature of authority: villa culture, landscape, and representation in eighteenth-century Lombardy

Book Review: The nature of authority: villa culture, landscape, and representation in... reviews in brief exclusion from the franchise in each of the settler colonies – Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Beginning with the vision of ‘native’ conversion, civilization and ultimate assimilation that was elaborated for the Empire as a whole by influential humanitarians in the 1830s, the book is structured around chapters that deal with the fate of this vision in each colony in turn. The first half of the book traces the translation of the assimilationist vision into, at best, ‘non-racial’, property-bound franchises during the mid-nineteenth century. The second half narrates and interprets the efforts of self-governing settler communities to delineate more clearly a ‘racial’ basis for citizenship during the remainder of that century, again tackling each colony in turn. The book is particularly revealing of the con- nection between debates over white women’s enfranchisement and the enfranchisement (or, more often, disfranchisement) of indigenous peoples in each site. For the most part, the narrative is one constructed out of a useful synthesis of secondary sources on each col- ony, but where there are gaps, they have been filled by fairly extensive primary research. The approach behind this narrative is one of comparative rather than interconnected history. It http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: The nature of authority: villa culture, landscape, and representation in eighteenth-century Lombardy

Agnew, John
Cultural Geographies , Volume 11 (4): 3 – Oct 1, 2004
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reviews in brief exclusion from the franchise in each of the settler colonies – Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Beginning with the vision of ‘native’ conversion, civilization and ultimate assimilation that was elaborated for the Empire as a whole by influential humanitarians in the 1830s, the book is structured around chapters that deal with the fate of this vision in each colony in turn. The first half of the book traces the translation of the assimilationist vision into, at best, ‘non-racial’, property-bound franchises during the mid-nineteenth century. The second half narrates and interprets the efforts of self-governing settler communities to delineate more clearly a ‘racial’ basis for citizenship during the remainder of that century, again tackling each colony in turn. The book is particularly revealing of the con- nection between debates over white women’s enfranchisement and the enfranchisement (or, more often, disfranchisement) of indigenous peoples in each site. For the most part, the narrative is one constructed out of a useful synthesis of secondary sources on each col- ony, but where there are gaps, they have been filled by fairly extensive primary research. The approach behind this narrative is one of comparative rather than interconnected history. It

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