Neuerscheinung: Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia

We are happy to announce a new book publication by Eva Bischoff: "Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia. Quaker Lives and Ideals" published by Palgrave Macmillan in the well-known publication series "Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies".

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 Quaker 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 approaches to capture the complexities of this topic and era.

AutorinEva Bischoff
TitelBenevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia. Quaker Lives and Ideals
ISBN9783030326692
VerlagPalgrave Macmillan
Preis80,24 € (Hardcover), 64,19 € (eBook), 58,84 € (Pre-Order Softcover)
SpracheEnglisch
SeitenXVII, 404 p. 23 illus., 17 illus. in color
ReiheCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies