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Honourable Intentions? - Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c 1750 to 1850. (Paperback)
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Honourable Intentions? - Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c 1750 to 1850. (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use
of 'honour' in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the
early British settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. The
mobile populations of emigrants and sojourners, sailors and
soldiers, merchants and traders, slaves and convicts who surged
into and through these regions are not usually associated with
ideas of honour. But in both societies, competing and contradictory
notions of honour proved integral to the ways in which colonisers
and colonised, free and unfree, defended their status and insisted
on their right to be treated with respect. During these times of
flux, concepts of honour and status were radically reconstructed.
Each of the thirteen chapters considers honour in a particular
sphere - legal, political, religious or personal - and in different
contexts determined by the distinctive and changing matrix of race,
gender and class, as well as the distinctions of free and unfree
status in each colony. Early chapters in the volume show how and
why the political, ideological and moral stakes of the concept of
honour were particularly important in colonial societies; later
chapters look more closely at the social behaviour and the purchase
of honour among specific groups. Collectively, the chapters show
that there was no clear distinction between political and social
life, and that honour crossed between the public and private
spheres. This exciting new collection brings together new and
established historians of Australia and South Africa to highlight
thought-provoking parallels and contrasts between the Cape and
Australian colonies that will be of interest to all scholars of
colonial societies and the concept of honour.
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