The paper war : morality, print culture and power in Colonial New South Wales / Anna Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Anna, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Threlkeld, L. E. (Lancelot Edward), 1788-1859.

Threlkeld, L. E.

London Missionary Society--History--19th century.

London Missionary Society.

London Missionary Society--Missions--Australia--Lake Macquarie (N.S.W.).

Missions.

Colonization.

History.

Missions, English.

Australia.

Missions, English--Australia--History--19th century.

Missionaries--Australia--Lake Macquarie (N.S.W.).

Missionaries.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--New South Wales--Lake Macquarie.

Aboriginal Australians.

New South Wales.

Australia--Colonization--History.

Australia--History--1788-1851.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Physical Description:

ix, 299 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2011.

Summary:

The 19th-century missionary activities of Rev. Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and other members of his Lake Macquarie mission in colonial New South Wales, Australia, led to significant conflict with the London Missionary Society and white Australian settlers because of the ways in which Threlkeld confronted the leaders of the LMS and his advocacy for the Aboriginal peoples of the area. These controversies prompted a large number of public writings debating Threlkeld and his mission, a body of texts Threlkeld himself once dubbed the "paper war." Exploring this body of texts generated by and about Threlkeld, Johnston (English, U. of Tasmania, Australia) investigates the ways in which colonial knowledge was generated and dispersed through local and international imperial networks and reads them as a window into the construction of white colonial culture in Australia. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781921401541

1921401540

OCLC:

713016484