Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia

lt;p>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)