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Author:

Bischoff, Eva, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

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

Subject:

Quakers--Australia--History--19th century.
Colonists--Australia--History--19th century.
British--Australia--History--19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.

Notes:

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

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.

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

ISBN:

3030326667
9783030326661

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1117518830

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)