Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Quaker Lives and Ideals

by Eva Bischoff

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030326691
• ISBN13: 9783030326692
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"