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Exploring the intersection of Quaker beliefs and colonial actions, the book delves into the lives of British Quaker families in early nineteenth-century Australia. It examines their roles in settler colonialism and the resulting impact on Aboriginal communities, while also highlighting their commitments to pacifism and humanitarian movements like abolitionism. By analyzing their journeys and writings, the author addresses the complexities of navigating violence on the frontier, offering varied historical perspectives to illuminate this multifaceted narrative.

In order to study the history of colonialism and its legacy from the perspective of the early 21st century, we have to think beyond old spatial and disciplinary boundaries. Starting from this insight, the essays in this volume explore the roles that race and migration played in the formation of (trans)national spaces and identities. They investigate topics such as citizenship, sovereignty, and racialized bodies, as well as transnational patterns of political activism and belonging, migration, the biopolitics of whiteness, and the history of humanitarian NGOs. As a result, this book makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about the current location of postcolonial studies. (Series: Periplus Studien - Vol. 17)