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Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Quaker Lives and Ideals

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Authors:
  1. Eva Bischoff

    1. Department of International History, Trier University, Trier, Germany

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  • 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 1-8

  3. Violence and Pacifism: Writing the History of the Anglo-world from Within

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 9-35

  4. A Peculiar People: Quakers and the Atlantic World Around 1800

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 37-77

  5. Quakers in Early Nineteenth-Century Van Diemen’s Land

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 79-143

  6. The Case of James Backhouse and George W. Walker: Quaker Ministers and Colonial Governmentality, 1834

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 145-158

  7. Being at Home: Van Diemen’s Land as a Quaker Settler Space

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 159-200

  8. The Case of Francis Cotton and George F. Story: Quaker Settlers and the Tasmanian Frontier, 1829–1831

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 201-216

  9. Removal, Reform, Protection: Building a Humanitarian Empire

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 217-260

  10. Tasmanian Lessons: Translation of Quaker Experiences and Concepts, 1836–1843

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 261-314

  11. Conclusion

    • Eva Bischoff
    Pages 315-329

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 331-404
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About this book

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.

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

  • Department of International History, Trier University, Trier, Germany

    Eva Bischoff

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

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