The Antipodean laboratory : making colonial knowledge, 1770-1870 / Anna Johnston

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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction: Settler Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge -- Authentic Information and Cheap Publications: Metropolitan Readers and Colonial Knowledge -- 'Colonial Intelligence' from Australia -- The Antipodean Laboratory -- Writing Empire: Knowledge and the Archive -- Overview and Chapters -- Part I Imagining Settler Humanitarianism -- 1 Morality, Violence and Sentiment: Precarious Lives on Colonial Frontiers, 1788-1797 -- New South Wales and Print Culture, 1786-1790 -- Religious and Domestic Experiments: Richard and Mary Johnson in 'a Country Wild and Uncultivated', 1788-1792 -- Reading at Port Jackson, 1788-1794 -- Murder, Missionaries and the Military: Sentiment and Anomie, 1799 -- 2 Language, Poetry and Song: Reading Indigenous Wordlists and Grammars, 1770-1874 -- In Tupaia's Tent: Early Experiments with Language, 1770 -- The Observatory and the Sydney Language: Patyegarang, the Gadigal and William Dawes, 1788-1791 -- From the Boat to the Great Exhibition: Biraban, Lancelot Threlkeld and George Grey, 1824-1859 -- On Country and on the Pianoforte: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and Settler Poetics, 1838-1848 -- Harriott Barlow, Yehdell and the Royal Anthropological Society, 1868-1874 -- Part II Regulating Settler Society -- 3 Virtuous Curiosity: Penal Practices and Social Theories, 1791-1843 -- Inspection and Experiment: Jeremy Bentham and the Penal Colony, 1791-1831 -- Inventing Settler Colonialism: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Slavery and Systematic Colonisation, 1829-1840 -- Reforming Principles and Colonial Observations: The Bigge Report and Evangelical Witnessing, 1820s-1840s -- 4 Prison Letters: Reading and Writing from Norfolk Island, 1834-1860.

Addressing Prisoners and a Convict Response: Reforming Colonial Evidence, 1837 -- The Moral Experiment and Penal Science: Alexander Maconochie and the Mark System, 1837-1844 -- Maconochie's Textual Machinery: Convict Readers and Testimonies -- 'The Botany Bay of Botany Bay': Colonial Writing in Downing Street and Birmingham Prison -- Part III Inventing Settler Science -- 5 Collecting Practices: Botany, Print Culture and Empire, 1768-1988 -- Making Botanical Knowledge and the Endeavour Voyage, 1768-1771 -- A Laudable and Innocent Curiosity: Sydney Parkinson and Textual Authority, 1770-1777 -- Defining the Field and Recording Colonial Knowledge, 1800-1840 -- Banks' Florilegium, 1768-1988 -- 6 Creating Colonial Readers and Imperial Networks: The Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, 1841-1849 -- Science, Sociability and Tasmanian Scientific Associations, 1827-1843 -- The Platypus Journal and the Felon Press: Print Culture in Tasmania, 1820s-1840s -- Colonial Science, Indigenous Worlds and Scientific Journals -- Learning to Read the Tasmanian Journal -- Conclusion: Knowing the Colony, Knowing the World -- Knowing the Colonies -- Knowing the World -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.