Richard Price, Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021, pbk, ISBN: 9780367565794, 372 + pp, $59.19.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
History is often written backwards. We look for order and meaning in the past to make sense of some present-day problem or issue. But this method of looking at history varnishes over the contingency and agency, indeed the very haphazardness of the actual past. Richard Price has provided a valuable window into this history in his discussion of Indigenous-state relations in Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century. Price has written a fascinating account of the humanitarian moment in the British Empire when Christian moralism and policy making across the British empire converged over the issue of the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and South African colonies. He focuses on the mentalities and policies that inform this project in a manner that gives an intellectual and ethical heft to historic law and policies that are often simply described and justified as directed at restraining settler violence in the literature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".