Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.

Research Library catalogue

Back to Research Library home

PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

The paper war: morality, print culture and power in Colonial New South Wales / Anna Johnston.

Share Link
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
Author Johnston, Anna, 1972-
Title The paper war morality, print culture and power in Colonial New South Wales / Anna Johnston.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crawley, WA : UWA Publishing, 2011.
Description Electronic resource ; Online.
Publication Dates 2011.
Note Reproduction Note: Monograph. Melbourne, Vic. RMIT Publishing. 2014.
Conditions of access Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary In February 1832 Rev. Threlkeld was named as one of the 'perpetual blisters' that the London Missionary Society seemed 'destined to carry'. Lancelot Threlkeld, a working-class British subject, had lobbied his way to the colonies where he set up the Lake Macquarie mission in New South Wales. It was here that controversies, arguments, tempers and debates abounded, resulting in a very public 'paper war'. This engaging and intelligent book delves into the diverse and voluminous body of texts produced by and about Threlkeld from 1825-41. It identifies an influential network of British Empire men who were as crucial to the humanitarian debate as they were to the destruction of Threlkeld's mission. A web of intrigue, corruption, slander, whistleblowing and backstabbing, The Paper War is an eye-opener to colonial Australia.
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Lake Macquarie
Missions, English -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Missionaries -- Australia
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
Australia -- Colonization -- History
Call number Informit database (HSS)
Internet Site Access to full text via Informit e-Library
.
Add Title to Basket Catalogue Record 100077059
.
Catalogue Information 100077059 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 100077059 Top of page .