Anna Johnston (University of Queensland)

The Antipodean Laboratory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781009186919
• ISBN-10: 1009186914
• Artikelnr.: 73390531

Autorenporträt

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.