Description
Illicit Love is a history of affection, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens on the heart of 2 settler colonial nations, america and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the past due eighteenth to the early twentieth century through stories of romance, courtship, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and colonizers in times of nation formation.
Illicit Love reveals how marriage itself was once utilized by disparate parties for both empowerment and disempowerment and the way it came to embody the contradictions of imperialism. A tour de force of settler colonial history, McGrath’s study demonstrates vividly how interracial relationships between Indigenous and colonizing peoples were more frequent and threatening to nation-states within the Atlantic and the Pacific worlds than historians have in the past acknowledged.