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Combines history with the analysis of racial formation and reproductive sexuality in the settler colonial spaces of the US and British Australia. This book places 'whiteness', and the definition of what it meant to be white in nineteenth-century America and Australia, at the center of our historical understanding of racial and sexual identities.

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A masterful example of how comparative and transnational methodologies can provide new and exciting insights into the intricate racial discourses that accompanied the colonisation of indigenous peoples in the United States and Australia. This book deepens our understanding of how white Australian and American identities were inextricably linked their nation's settler origins. Katherine Ellinghaus, Monash University Gregory Smithers has given us a most welcome addition to the international study of white settler societies - a field of growing importance. He skillfully weaves together his chosen themes of science, sexuality and race into a cogent and compelling narrative studded with graphic illustration and telling quotation. It is a significant achievement which should attract both the expert and the curious general reader. Henry Reynolds, Professor (Personal Chair in Aboriginal Studies and History), University of Tasmania

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"Gregory D. Smithers is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His works include: ""Black gentleman as good as white"": Comparing the Origins and Development of African-American and Australian Aboriginal Political Protest,"" Journal of African American History (Fall, 2008); ""The `pursuits of the civilized man’: Race and the Meaning of Civilization in the United States and Australia, 1790s-1850s,"" Journal of World History (Fall 2008)."

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