Overview
- Focuses on the history of a group of British Quaker families and their involvement in settler colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia
- Explores the tension between the humanitarian ideals held by Quakers and their everyday actions which contributed to practices which displaced and annihilated Indigenous communities
- Combines micro-historical analysis of these Quaker families with a reconstruction of the multi-layered and interconnected global networks that shaped these settlers’ lives
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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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 Quakers 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 takes to capture the complexities of this topic and era.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Reviews
“Bischoff herself details the book's contributions to three academic fields, namely: settler colonial studies, the history of humanitarianism and genocide studies … . This monograph demonstrates a broad grasp of the subject matter and places a new light on the Quakers as well as underscoring the connection between humanitarianism and imperialism in the early 19th-century British world.” (Felicity Jensz, Anglistik, Vol. 32 (1), 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Eva Bischoff is Assistant Professor of International History at Trier University, Germany. Her research interests include Colonial and Imperial History, Postcolonial Studies, Settler Colonial Studies as well as Gender/Queer Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Book Subtitle: Quaker Lives and Ideals
Authors: Eva Bischoff
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32667-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32666-1Published: 30 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32669-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32667-8Published: 02 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 404
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, Australasian History, History of Religion, Social History