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1 online resource (248 pages) |
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Routledge research in early modern history |
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Half Title; Series Information; Endorsement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Honourable intentions?; Notes; 1 Defining and defending honour in law; Notes; 2 The Honourable Company: VOC rule at the Cape; Notes; 3 Honourable colonisation? Australia; Notes; 4 Honour and religion in the Cape Colony; Notes; 5 Honour, information and religion: New South Wales, 1780s-1850s; Notes; 6 The politics of burgher honour in the Cape Colony, 1770s-1780s; Notes |
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7 Honour and liberal governance in the Australian and Cape colonies, 1820s-1850sNotes; 8 Defending honour in Dutch Cape settler society; Notes; 9 Defending honour in Australian settler societies; Notes; 10 Honour among slaves and indigenous people in the Cape Colony; Notes; 11 Honour among convict and Aboriginal men in 1820s New South Wales; Notes; 12 Honour, morality and sexuality in the eighteenth-century Cape Colony; Notes; 13 Honour, morality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Sydney; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Honor -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History
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Violence -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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HISTORY -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Colonization
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Honor -- Social aspects
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Violence -- Social aspects
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Australia -- Colonization -- History
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Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Colonization -- History
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Australia -- History -- To 1788.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88000618
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Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
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Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- To 1795.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019884
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Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019885
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Australia
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South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Russell, Penny
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Worden, Nigel
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| ISBN |
9781317269397 |
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131726939X |
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