Zoe Laidlaw (University of Melbourne)

Gebundenes Buch

Protecting the Empire's Humanity

Beschreibung

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in 'protecting' and 'civilizing' indigenous peoples, but this study of Quaker activist Thomas Hodgkin and the Aborigines' Protection Society reveals the fatal flaws in imperial 'humanitarianism'.

Autor

Zoë Laidlaw is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Colonial Connections 1815-45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government (2005) and co-editor, with Alan Lester, of Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World (2015).

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781107196322
• ISBN-10: 1107196329
• Artikelnr.: 61403226