The Antipodean Laboratory

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext "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"-- Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Résumé
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.

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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.