Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Quaker Lives and Ideals (1st ed. 2020) (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030326678

Related ISBNs:

9783030326661

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

02/16/20

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Australiana, Social Studies

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