Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Eva Bischoff is Assistant Professor of International History at Trier University, Germany. Her research interests include Colonial and Imperial History, Postcolonial Studies, Settler Colonial Studies as well as Gender/Queer Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Violence and Pacifism: Writing the History of the Anglo-World from within.- 3. A Peculiar People: Quakers and the Atlantic World around 1800.- 4. Quakers in Early Nineteenth-Century Van Diemen’s Land.- 5. The Case of James Backhouse and George W. Walker: Quaker Ministers and Colonial Governmentality, 1834.- 6. Being at Home: Van Diemen’s Land as a Quaker Settler Space.- 7. The Case of Francis Cotton and George F. Story: Quaker Settlers and the Tasmanian Frontier, 1829-1831.- 8. Removal, Reform, Protection: Building a Humanitarian Empire.- 9. Tasmanian Lessons: Translation of Quaker Experiences and Concepts, 1836-1843.- 10. Conclusion.-

“Bischoff herself details the book's contributions to three academic fields, namely: settler colonial studies, the history of humanitarianism and genocide studies … . This monograph demonstrates a broad grasp of the subject matter and places a new light on the Quakers as well as underscoring the connection between humanitarianism and imperialism in the early 19th-century British world.” (Felicity Jensz, Anglistik, Vol. 32 (1), 2021)