Table of Contents

Introduction – Experiences, actors, spaces: dimensions of settler colonialism in transnational perspective 1. Good land–bad land: ecological knowledge and the settling of the old Northwest, 1755–1805 2. ‘The intrusion therefore of cattle is by itself sufficient to produce the extirpation of the native race’: social ecological systems and ecocide in conflicts between Hunter–Gatherers and commercial stock farmers in Australia 3. Invariably genocide? When hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers clash 4. Poor, white, and useful: settlers in their petitions to US Congress, 1817–1841 5. ‘I am frightened out of my life’: Black War, white fear 6. Arms & amelioration: negotiating Quaker peace testimony and settler violence in 1830s Van Diemen’s Land

About the Author

Eva Bischoff teaches International History at Trier University, Germany. Her research interests include colonial and imperial history, postcolonial theory, and gender/queer studies. She recently concluded a book project investigating the history of a group of Quaker families and their roles in the process of settler imperialism in early nineteenth-century Australia.