Description

UWA Publishing [Published Date: 2001]. Soft cover, 299 pp. First Edition. In very good condition. Cream paper covers have a small nick and light bumping and creasing to bottom edge of back cover and last few pages. Light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Some black and white illustrations; notes; selected bibliography, index. [From back cover] 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 plots the formation of NSW as a modern colonial state and re-examines its morality, politics, Aboriginal relations, language, law and media. It also 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.