"Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies"--
"Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies"--
Anna Johnston is Professor in English Literature at University of Queensland whose research explores the history and aftermath of the British Empire, especially in Australia. She is the author of Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800¿1860 (2003).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: settler colonialism and its forms of knowledge; Part I. Imagining Settler Humanitarianism: 1. Morality, violence and sentiment: precarious lives on colonial frontiers, 1788 1797; 2. Language, poetry and song: reading indigenous wordlists and grammars, 1770 1874; Part II. Regulating Settler Society: 3. 'Virtuous curiosity': penal practices and social theories, 1791 1843; 4. Prison letters: reading and writing from Norfolk Island, 1834 1860; Part III. Inventing Settler Science: 5. Collecting practices: Botany, print culture and empire, 1768 1988; 6. Creating colonial readers and imperial networks: the Tasmanian journal of natural science, 1841 1849; Conclusion: knowing the colony, knowing the world.
Introduction: settler colonialism and its forms of knowledge; Part I. Imagining Settler Humanitarianism: 1. Morality, violence and sentiment: precarious lives on colonial frontiers, 1788 1797; 2. Language, poetry and song: reading indigenous wordlists and grammars, 1770 1874; Part II. Regulating Settler Society: 3. 'Virtuous curiosity': penal practices and social theories, 1791 1843; 4. Prison letters: reading and writing from Norfolk Island, 1834 1860; Part III. Inventing Settler Science: 5. Collecting practices: Botany, print culture and empire, 1768 1988; 6. Creating colonial readers and imperial networks: the Tasmanian journal of natural science, 1841 1849; Conclusion: knowing the colony, knowing the world.
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