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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
illustrations, voyage accounts, language studies, Victorian
literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary account
charts how new ways of identifying, classifying, analysing and
controlling ideas, populations, and environments were forged and
circulated between colonies and through metropolitan centres. They
were also underpinned by cultural exchanges between European and
Indigenous interlocutors and knowledge systems. Johnston shows how
colonial ideas were disseminated through a global network of
correspondence and print culture.
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the
British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied
ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial
and religious interests. She maps out this position through an
examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most
influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London
Missionary Society. These texts provide a fascinating commentary on
nineteenth-century evangelism and colonialism, and illuminate
complex relationships between white imperial subjects, white
colonial subjects, and non-white colonial subjects. With their
reformist, and often prurient interest in sexual and familial
relationships, missionary texts focused imperial attention on
gender and domesticity in colonial cultures. Johnston contends that
in doing so they rewrote imperial expansion as a moral allegory and
confronted British ideologies of gender, race and class. Texts from
Indian, Polynesian and Australian missions are examined to
highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical
activity in relation to gender, colonialism and race.
Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnson analyzes missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnson reveals how missionaries were caught between imperial and religious interests through an examination of texts published by the largest and most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are also examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relationship to gender, colonialism, and race.
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796-1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and
became almost immediately notorious for her poem "The Aboriginal
Mother," written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre.
She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her
lifetime, but for the century following her death her work was
largely neglected. In recent years, however, critical interest in
Dunlop has increased, in Australia and internationally and in a
range of fields, including literary studies; settler, postcolonial
and imperial studies; and Indigenous studies. This stimulating
collection of essays by leading scholars considers Dunlop's work
from a range of perspectives and includes a new selection of her
poetry.
Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling
and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her
legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in
India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus
entirely on this "unconventional memsahib" and her contribution to
turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw
attention to Steel's multifaceted work-ranging from fiction to
journalism to letter writing, from housekeeping manuals to
philanthropic activities. These essays, by recognized experts on
her life and work, will appeal to interdisciplinary scholars and
readers in the fields of British India and Women's Studies.
Contributors: Amrita Banerjee, Helen Pike Bauer, Ralph Crane,
Grainne Goodwin, Alan Johnson, Anna Johnston, Danielle Nielsen,
LeeAnne M. Richardson, Susmita Roye
This reprint - originally published by Quintus Publishing - brings
together essays by leading Australian and international historians
in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian
Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, edited
by N.J.B. Plomley and republished in 2008. Until this book,
Friendly Mission has rarely been considered in a context beyond the
immediacy of "Van Diemen's Land" (the original European name for
Tasmania). Yet, George Augustus Robinson's diverse writings
constitute a body of work that typically has one set of meanings
for local readers, and another for those outside its sphere of
production. Robinson's texts are exemplary of the ways in which
colonial texts circulated around what Alan Lester, Professor of
Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, has called
'imperial networks.' Reading Robinson, while remaining cognizant of
local resonances, extends Friendly Mission from parochial
particularity and situates it within international contexts, both
in terms of contemporary accounts of colonial/settler contact,
conflict with indigenes, and current scholarship analyzing this
material.
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