Prelude: Dubious reputations. Pt. I. Patrolling the boundaries: 1. The Wylde affair -- 2. Claiming status. Pt. II. In the courts: 3. Fair fame and credit: conducting business -- 4. Tales of ruin: sex and marriage. Pt. III. Transforming the colonies: 5. The taint of bondage -- 6. A new dawn?. Postscript: Towards respectability
Summary
Explores how colonial societies offered European settlers the opportunity to invent new identities, an opportunity exploited with a vengeance. But as people, goods and correspondence crossed the imperial realm, scandal was never far behind. Kirsten McKenzie argues that scandal influenced imperial policy
Analysis
Scandals
Sydney
South Africa
History, 1801-1900
Social conditions
Colonialism
Social class
Cape Town (South Africa)
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 196-205
Notes
Also published as an electronic book (Etitle) by James Bennett Pty. Ltd., in 2006 with ISBN 0522852920