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

"Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use of ideas of honour in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the early British settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. In both regions swirled a free, and often transient, population of emigrants and sojourners, sailors and soldiers, merchants and traders, slaves and convicts, all with diverse backgrounds and transnational experiences. The mobile populations of colonial societies brought together cultures that held disparate, even contradictory, codes of honour and during these times of flux, concepts of honour and status were radically reconstructed"--Provided by publisher.

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.