"In Facing Empire, Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell have collected a series of essays that focus on indigenous experiences in the revolutionary age of the late eighteenth century, looking at indigenous interactions with the British Empire particularly. The collection aims to view indigenous peoples as vital and dynamic actors across an increasingly global stage and think about what this new world of European-driven imperialism might have looked like to them. The contributors' mission is not only to write histories that include indigenous perspectives but to present the imperial past with indigenous peoples as the main subjects. This collection covers the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia, and West and South Africa, as well as North America"-- Provided by publisher.

The future makers : managing Australia in 1788 / Bill Gammage -- The indigenous architecture of empire : the Anishinaabe Odawa in North America / Michael A. McDonnell -- Exploiting British ambivalence in West Africa : Fante sovereignty in the early nineteenth century / Rebecca Shumway -- New ecologies : pathways in the Pacific, 1760s-1840s / Jenny Newell -- Closed sea or contested waters? : the Persian Gulf in the age of revolutions / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Red power and homeland security : native nations and the limits of empire in the Ohio Country / Colin G. Calloway -- Between reform and revolution : class formation and British colonial rule at the cape of Good Hope / Nicole Ulrich -- Christianity, commerce and the remaking of the Māori world / Tony Ballantyne -- Broken treaty : Taungurung responses to the settler revolution in colonial Victoria / Robert Kenny -- Envoys of interest : a Cherokee, a Ra'iatean, and the eighteenth-century British Empire / Kate Fullagar -- Makahs, Māoris, and the settler revolution in Pacific marine space / Joshua L. Reid -- Imperial structures, indigenous aims: connecting native engagement in Scotland, North America, and South Asia / Justin Brooks -- Shahwundais and the Methodist Mission to native North America / Elspeth Martini -- Indigenous politics after the end of empire / Shino Konishi.