Ann McGrath is a professor of history and the director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including How to Write History That People Want to Read; Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration; and Contested Ground: A History of Australian Aborigines under the British Crown.¿McGrath won the 2016 John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland for research and writing Australian history.

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Preface: Flowers for the Bride

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Perfect Marriage?

Part 1. Secrets of New Nations

1. Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot: Against History?

2. Ernest Gribble and Jeannie

Part 2. Marriage and Modernity among the Cherokees

3. Socrates, Cherokee Sovereignty, and the Regulation of White Men

4. John Ross and Mary Bryan Stapler

Part 3. Queensland’s Marital Middle Ground

5. Husbands under Surveillance

6. Consent and Aboriginal Wives

Part 4. Embodying New Worlds

7. Polygamy’s New Worlds

8. Entwined Sovereignties and the Great Unwedding

Epilogue: Transnational Families

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Ann McGrath is a professor of history and the director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including How to Write History That People Want to Read; Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration; and Contested Ground: A History of Australian Aborigines under the British Crown. McGrath won the 2016 John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland for research and writing Australian history.