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Honourable intentions? : violence and virtue in Australian and Cape colonies, c. 1750 to 1850 / edited by Penny Russell and Nigel Worden.

Contributor(s): Russell, Penny [editor.] | Worden, Nigel, 1955- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in early modern history: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138850385 (hardback : alkaline paper); 1138850381 (hardback : alkaline paper)Subject(s): Australia -- Colonization -- History | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Colonization -- History | Honor -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History | Honor -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History | Violence -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History | Violence -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History | Australia -- History -- To 1788 | Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- To 1795 | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872DDC classification: 994.01 LOC classification: DU115 | .H66 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Honourable intentions? / Penny Russell and Nigel Worden -- Defining and defending honour in law / Kirsten McKenzie -- The honourable company : VOC rule at the Cape / Nigel Penn -- Honourable colonisation? : Australia / Penelope Edmonds -- Honour and religion in the Cape Colony / Robert Ross -- Honour, information and religion : New South Wales, 1780s-1850s / Alan Atkinson -- The politics of burgher honour in the Cape Colony, 1770s-1780s / Teun Baartman -- Honour and liberal governance in the Australian and Cape colonies, 1820s-1850s / Chris Holdridge -- Defending honour in Dutch Cape settler society / Nigel Worden -- Defending honour in Australian settler society / Catie Gilchrist -- Honour among slaves and indigenous people in the Cape Colony / Rick Watson -- Honour among convict and Aboriginal men in 1820s New South Wales / James Drown and Penny Russell -- Honour, morality and sexuality in the eighteenth-century Cape Colony / Gerald Groenewald -- Honour, morality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Sydney / Penny Russell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Honourable intentions? / Penny Russell and Nigel Worden -- Defining and defending honour in law / Kirsten McKenzie -- The honourable company : VOC rule at the Cape / Nigel Penn -- Honourable colonisation? : Australia / Penelope Edmonds -- Honour and religion in the Cape Colony / Robert Ross -- Honour, information and religion : New South Wales, 1780s-1850s / Alan Atkinson -- The politics of burgher honour in the Cape Colony, 1770s-1780s / Teun Baartman -- Honour and liberal governance in the Australian and Cape colonies, 1820s-1850s / Chris Holdridge -- Defending honour in Dutch Cape settler society / Nigel Worden -- Defending honour in Australian settler society / Catie Gilchrist -- Honour among slaves and indigenous people in the Cape Colony / Rick Watson -- Honour among convict and Aboriginal men in 1820s New South Wales / James Drown and Penny Russell -- Honour, morality and sexuality in the eighteenth-century Cape Colony / Gerald Groenewald -- Honour, morality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Sydney / Penny Russell.

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