Conquest

Abstract This chapter examines the meaning, method, and practice of conquest in Australia. It suggests that the continent and islands of Australia were claimed for the British Empire in an interlinked chain of ritual extending over more than fifty years. James Cook hoisted the British flag on Posses...

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Main Author: Atkinson, Alan
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Oxford University PressOxford 2010
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Possession Island
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563739.003.0002
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563739.003.0002 2024-05-19T07:47:36+00:00 Conquest Atkinson, Alan 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563739.003.0002 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/44959281/book_8621_section_154565399.ag.pdf en eng Oxford University PressOxford Australia’s Empire page 33-53 ISBN 019956373X 9780199563739 9780191701894 book-chapter 2010 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563739.003.0002 2024-05-02T09:30:33Z Abstract This chapter examines the meaning, method, and practice of conquest in Australia. It suggests that the continent and islands of Australia were claimed for the British Empire in an interlinked chain of ritual extending over more than fifty years. James Cook hoisted the British flag on Possession Island on August 22, 1770 and claimed the territory he had seen in the name of King George III and this claim was reinforced by the King himself on 12 October 1786. Several other claims were made and settlements established from that moment until 1829, but the actual conquest of the country and its people extended a long time beyond those years. Book Part Possession Island Oxford University Press
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description Abstract This chapter examines the meaning, method, and practice of conquest in Australia. It suggests that the continent and islands of Australia were claimed for the British Empire in an interlinked chain of ritual extending over more than fifty years. James Cook hoisted the British flag on Possession Island on August 22, 1770 and claimed the territory he had seen in the name of King George III and this claim was reinforced by the King himself on 12 October 1786. Several other claims were made and settlements established from that moment until 1829, but the actual conquest of the country and its people extended a long time beyond those years.
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publisher Oxford University PressOxford
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page 33-53
ISBN 019956373X 9780199563739 9780191701894
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