| Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Quaker Lives and Ideals 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Bischoff, Eva (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030326667 ISBN-13: 9783030326661 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - Religion | History - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 200.09 |
| Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.84 lbs) 404 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book reconstructs the history of a group of British Quaker families and their involvement in the process of settler colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia. Their everyday actions contributed to the multiplicity of practices that displaced and annihilated Aboriginal communities. Simultaneously, early nineteenth-century Friends were members of a translocal, transatlantic community characterized by pacifism and an involvement in transnational humanitarian efforts, such as the abolitionist and the prison reform movements as well as the Aborigines Protection Society. Considering these ideals, how did Quakers negotiate the violence of the frontier? To answer this question, the book looks at Tasmanian and South Australian Quakers' lives and experiences, their journeys and their writings. Building on recent scholarship on the entanglement between the local and the global, each chapter adopts a different historical perspective in terms of breadth and focused time period. The study combines these different takes to capture the complexities of this topic and era. |