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The enlightenment and the origins of European Australia / John Gascoigne, with the assistance of Patricia Curthoys.
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Publication details:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Record id:
25398
Author:
Subject:
Europeans -- Australia -- History.
Enlightenment -- Australia.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Historiography.
Contents:
1. Introduction
Understanding the enlightenment
The English-speaking enlightenments
Improvement and progress
The enlightenment, Australia and the historians
Part 1. Contexts
2. Religion
Reason and belief
Anti-clericalism, the military and masonry
The challenge of religious pluralism
The separation of Church and State
3. Politics
Hierarchy and colonial society
Locke, Bentham and the limits of government
Wentworth and the varieties of Whiggery
Tom Paine and Australia
Freedom of the press and the rights of juries
The growth of representative institutions
The defeat of the 'Bunyip Aristocracy'
The 'Systematic Colonisers' and land policy
Part 2. The possibilities of improvement
I. The improvement of the land
4. The earth and its fruits
The idea of progress and the Agrarian Revolution
Food and early settlement
Promoting colonial agricultural improvement
The growth of agricultural societies
Sheep and their improvement
5. Science and the land
The exploitation of nature
The advancement of knowledge
Colonial science and its institutions
Motives for scientific enquiry
II. The improvement of human nature
6. The cultivation of the mind
Good, evil and humanity
Educational theory
Church, state and education
The vareities of moral improvement
Adult education
7. Of crimes and punishement
Bentham, Beccaria and penal theory
The panopticon versus New South Wales
The emergence of the penitentiary
Criminals and their classification
Maconochie and the mark system
Transportation assessed
8. Race and the limits of 'improvement'
The unity of humankind
The anti-slavery campaign and the growth of humanitarianism
The mission
The Port Phillip Bay protectorate
Modes of co-existence
The strengthening of racism
From 'improvement' to rights.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780521617215
Phys. description:
xiii, 233 p. : ill. ; 26 cm