Benevolent colonizers in nineteenth-century Australia : Quaker lives and ideals / Eva Bischoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bischoff, Eva, author.

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quakers--Australia--History--19th century.

Colonists--Australia--History--19th century.

British--Australia--History--19th century.

Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.

Frontier and pioneer life.

British.

History.

Colonists.

Quakers.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xvii, 404 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Quaker lives and ideals

Benevolent colonizers in 19th-century Australia : Quaker lives and ideals

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Contents:

Introduction

Violence and pacifism: writing the history of the Anglo-world from within

A peculiar people: Quakers and the Atlantic world around 1800

Quakers in early nineteenth-century Van Diemen's Land

The case of James Backhouse and George W. Walker: Quaker ministers and colonial governmentality, 1834

Being at home: Van Diemen's Land as a Quaker settler space

The case of Francis Cotton and George F. Story: Quaker settlers and the Tasmanian frontier, 1829-1831

Removal, reform, protection: building a humanitarian empire

Tasmanian lessons: translation of Quaker experiences and concepts, 1836-1843

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-385) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030326661

3030326667

OCLC:

1117518830