Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Author: Eva Bischoff

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 3030326675

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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.

Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent
Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

Author: Beate Neumeier

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-08

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 149856402X

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Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different contexts, as well as with indigenous resistance against such ascriptions, while the importance of an understanding of indigenous notions of “care for country” is taken up from a variety of different disciplinary angles in terms of interconnectedness, anchoredness, living country, and living heritage.

The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism

Author: Sidney Xu Lu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1108482422

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Shows how Japanese anxiety about overpopulation was used to justify expansion, blurring lines between migration and settler colonialism. This title is also available as Open Access.

Dimensions of Settler Colonialism in a Transnational Perspective
Dimensions of Settler Colonialism in a Transnational Perspective

Author: Eva Bischoff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-29

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0429940912

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As a field of research, settler colonial studies has developed dynamically in recent years. This volume contributes a set of much-needed empirical analyses of the microhistory and practices of settler colonialism. Incorporating six case studies from across the Anglo-world, including the United States, Australia, and South Africa, this book examines the roles different actors played in this process, their individual experiences, and the social and physical (re-)organization of settler colonial space. They reconstruct the complexities of settler responses to Indigenous resistance, guided by fear or religious convictions; and explore the settlers’ potential to manoeuvre on higher political levels, legitimizing frontier violence as a patriotic duty to the common good. In addition, they examine the production and circulation of knowledge about land, and discuss the ways in which socio-ecological systems were manipulated by stock farmers whose success depended upon an effective integration into a world-wide economic system. Overall, the volume presents a unique combination of microhistorical analysis and environmental history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.

German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908
German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908

Author: Felicity Jensz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-01-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9004181539

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Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature of the book are questions of identity and of how individuals, and the organisations they worked for, can be seen as both colluders and opposers within nation-state borders and politics. It analyses the ways in which the Moravian missionaries navigated competing agendas within the colonial setting, especially those that impacted on their sense of personal vocation, their practices of conversion, and their understandings of the indigenous non-Christian peoples in the settler society of Victoria.

Colonising Egypt
Colonising Egypt

Author: Timothy Mitchell

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-10-11

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0520911660

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Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

Author: Alan Lester

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1139915878

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How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and development in sites ranging from British Honduras through Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales, New Zealand and Canada to India. It is seen in the lives of governors like George Arthur and George Grey, whose careers saw the violent and destructive colonization of indigenous peoples at the hands of British emigrants. The story challenges the exclusion of officials' humanitarian sensibilities from colonial history and places the settler colonies within the larger historical context of Western humanitarianism.

The Settler Colonial Present
The Settler Colonial Present

Author: L. Veracini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-12

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1137372478

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The Settler Colonial Present explores the ways in which settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination informs the global present. It presents an argument regarding its extraordinary resilience and diffusion and reflects on the need to imagine its decolonisation.

An Economic History of Australia
An Economic History of Australia

Author: Edward Shann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-02-25

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1316601676

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Originally published in 1930, this book provides an account of Australian economic development from 1788 up until the early twentieth century. The text is divided into three main sections: 'Convicts, Wool, and Gold 1788-1860'; 'Colonial Particularism 1860-1900'; 'The Commonwealth'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on the development of Australia and economic history.