Recovered Lives as Windows on the Anglo Colonial World, 1750-1850

面对公众对我们过去充满敌意的辩论，我们迫切需要冷静的学术研究，为澳大利亚早期的历史提供一个复杂的解释。通过将澳大利亚的定居视为一个相互关联的全球帝国的过程，而不是一个孤立的事件，该项目将增加对我们起源的理解，并将澳大利亚的关注注入到新兴的关于盎格鲁殖民世界的国际学术中。通过使我们对殖民时期澳大利亚种族的理解复杂化，该项目将挑战流行的历史观点，即澳大利亚一直是一个以种族为基础的白人社会，受到种族决定政策的驱动。

In the face of rancorous public debate about our past, there is an urgent need for dispassionate scholarship to provide a complex interpretation of Australia's early history. By considering the settlement of Australia as a process within an interconnected global empire, rather than an isolated event, the project will increase the understanding of our beginnings and inject Australian concerns into the burgeoning international scholarship on the Anglo colonial world. By complicating our understanding of race in colonial Australia, the project will challenge the prevailing historical view that Australia has always been a racially-based white society, driven by racially determined policies.