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Benevolent colonizers in nineteenth-century Australia : Quaker lives and ideals / Eva Bischoff.
Van Pelt Library BX7748.I65 B57 2020
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- 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
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