The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770-1870

by Anna Johnston

In this compelling study, Anna Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about convicts, natural history and humanitarian concerns about Indigenous peoples. These were fascinating topics for British readers, and influenced government policies in fields such as prison reform, the history of science, and humanitarian and religious campaigns. Using a rich variety of sources including natural history and botanical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009186906
• ISBN13: 9781009186902
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"