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 p...

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1. Verfasser:	Johnston, Anna 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
Schlagworte:	Geistesgeschichte 1770-1870 Indigenes Volk Wissen Kolonie Australia / Civilization.] Australia / Intellectual life Australia / Colonization Australia / History / 1788-1900 Großbritannien Australien
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Sep 2023) Introduction. Settler colonialism and its forms of knowledge -- Morality, violence and sentiment : precarious lives on colonial frontiers, 1788-1797 -- Language, poetry and song : reading indigenous wordlists and grammars, 1770-1874 -- 'Virtuous curiosity' : penal practices and social theories, 1791-1843 -- Prison letters : reading and writing from Norfolk Island, 1834-1860 -- Collecting practices : botany, print culture and empire, 1768-1988 -- Creating colonial readers and imperial networks : the Tasmanian journal of natural science, 1841-1849 -- Conclusion. Knowing the colony, knowing the world
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xii, 313 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009186896
DOI:	10.1017/9781009186896