2002
DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596191
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Of convicts and capitalists: Honour and colonial commerce in 1830s ‐Cape town and Sydney

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“…Several historians of South African history have begun to consider other settler societies, including Australia, notably Alan Lester with his study of racial discourse in New South Wales, New Zealand, and the Cape Colony, 19 and Kirsten McKenzie with her detailed study of scandal in Sydney and Cape Town. 20 Interest in CanadaAustralia comparisons has been much stronger in literary criticism than in history, but some Canadian and Australian historians have been interested in comparisons. An ambitious special issue of Labour History was based on a Canadian-Australian comparison, drawn from a conference in which Canadian and Australian scholars embarked on the task, of looking for the similarities and differences in their histories.…”
Section: Does Australian History Have a Future? Ann Curthoysmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several historians of South African history have begun to consider other settler societies, including Australia, notably Alan Lester with his study of racial discourse in New South Wales, New Zealand, and the Cape Colony, 19 and Kirsten McKenzie with her detailed study of scandal in Sydney and Cape Town. 20 Interest in CanadaAustralia comparisons has been much stronger in literary criticism than in history, but some Canadian and Australian historians have been interested in comparisons. An ambitious special issue of Labour History was based on a Canadian-Australian comparison, drawn from a conference in which Canadian and Australian scholars embarked on the task, of looking for the similarities and differences in their histories.…”
Section: Does Australian History Have a Future? Ann Curthoysmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For middle-class men, however, as McKenzie has argued, attributes annexed to their occupational or professional abilities -hard work, creditworthiness, skill -became central to identity more than previous ideas of gentlemanly refinement or aristocratic honour. 82 These gendered manifestations of reputation reflected business and economic imperatives. In this mercantile society, reputation -based upon perceptions of proper conduct -had practical uses and pecuniary ramifications.…”
Section: With Innuendo Hint and Sneer;mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The creation of proper models of behaviour for inclusion within and exclusion from a white bourgeoisie was proceeding through internal transformations within Britain as well as on a wider imperial stage." 125 In both England and NSW, the idea of individual defilement was thus connected to social decay, 126 and buggery became cathected to national strength (or weakness). In this context, surveillance of male sexuality, particularly male convict sexuality, was both a distinctly localized response to factors in the colony, and part of a "bourgeois imperial culture of manners which stressed the importance of personal respectability and domestic morality."…”
Section: A Community Surveillance and Colonial Tensionsmentioning
confidence: 99%