Colonial Networks and the Periodical Marketplace

Shannon, Mary L.

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“…That the majority of muskets sold to Māori by New South Wales merchants were from Britain is borne out by import figures showing the importation of thousands of British guns (Port of Sydney, 1831, p. 3). Also while New South Wales produced some gunpowder on a small scale from the 1820s, local manufacturing of firearms did not occur, aside from perhaps some assembly of arms from imported components (Shannon, 1967).…”

Section: The Firearms Trade In the British Empire And New South Walesmentioning

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Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840

Hepburn‐Roper

2023

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review

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The intertribal Musket wars that spread throughout Māori society in the 1820s and 1830s have received much attention from historians. This is also true of the history of trade between New South Wales and New Zealand occurring at the same time. However, at present, the link between these two phenomena remains poorly established. This article draws on the primary material available about the trans‐Tasman arms trade from a relatively untapped source, Sydney newspapers, revealing the surprising extent of this commerce and the fact that firearms imports peaked in the early 1830s. This information necessarily requires revision of our understanding of the Musket wars themselves.

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Section: The Firearms Trade In the British Empire And New South Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840

Hepburn‐Roper

2023

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review

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“…38 Both Milner (former assistant editor of the Pall Mall Gazette) and Baring were involved in shaping public opinion. Journals and newspapers provided a platform from which to influence politicians and policy, and the reasoning thus disseminated was designed to inform and sway (see Potter 2017;and Shannon 2017).…”

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Primitive Times

Moran¹

2022

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the author.The author has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.Cover design Clair Durow. Front image: Roman Rock Lighthouse, False Bay -Wikipedia. Back cover image: Uvongo.Imagination withdrew and returned to Africa ... where Dutch and English profit by the Negro millions, those hosts were stirred by vague dreams of freedom. Peering beyond the whole bulge of Africa, beyond cloud-spread Table Mountain, I saw the Southern Ocean, black with storms. -Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker Contents Preface vii Introduction x Critique (2021) and offers a philosophical and literary perspective. More generally, it looks to the work of those who have tried to discover what Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, described as 'the hidden mechanics' behind 'the mere process of disintegration [that] has become an irresistible temptation, not only because it has assumed the spurious grandeur of "historical necessity," but also because everything outside it has begun to appear lifeless, bloodless, meaningless, and unreal' (1951: xxvi). 1My contribution is to focus on the historical and symbolic importance of South Africa in connection with these issues, and to draw lessons that might contribute to understanding the current situation. The topicality of the phrase 'global apartheid' to describe the process of globalisation that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union-but whose contours were already discernibleprovides the theoretical opening. As the rest of the world catches up with South African levels of inequality, the South Africanisation of the globe suggests that the former polecat of the world community may represent the future rather than the past. 2 Unmoored from its native soil, the global 'South-Africanisation of society' (Gorz 1989: 151) denotes minority rule in international decision-making and implies a parallel between Bantustans and the poorer states in the world. It also suggests the utilisation of bioweapons. 3 This is why the building blocks of separate development are relevant, as are the strategies used to defeat legislated apartheid. If '"the Final Solution to the African problem"' (Dick 1962: 30) is indeed becoming the planetary template, then the colonial and imperial precedents of this country might be usefully revisited.The current situation can usefully be viewed through the lens of its colonial and imperial preconditions. Taking the long view, the course towards what we now call globalisation has been charted by predecessors making their own plea for a rational world order. For a relatively recent example, consider The Great An...

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“…138 Although the Claimant had strong support among working-class Britons, the contributors to his defence fund show that his financial backers were widespread. 139 Roe also notes that 'respectability' had 'largely' decided against the Claimant following the civil trial, but that 'largely' is a necessary qualification because many of the Claimant's witnesses hailed from upper-middle-class backgrounds. 140 Thus, Roe construes the 'Tichborne cause' as a kind of populist movement.…”

Section: Tichborne News and Anti-oppression Journal: A Weekly Newspaper Advocating Fair Play Formentioning

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“…138 Thomas, Cultivating Victorians, pp.104, 110. 139 Ibid, p.104. 140 Roe, Kenealy and the Tichborne Cause, p.39.…”

Section: Tichborne News and Anti-oppression Journal: A Weekly Newspaper Advocating Fair Play Formentioning

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“…138 Newspapers that continued to voice support for, or at least withhold their judgement towards, the Claimant included the Queanbeyan Age, Hobart's Mercury, and the Maitland Mercury, which sympathised with the Claimant's supporters and suggested that they deserved pity rather than censure. 139 More denigration of the Claimant erupted after the criminal trial. Following his conviction, the relatively reticent Argus penned a series of columns that examined how the Claimant managed to deceive so many.…”

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Crime, Sensation, and Empire

Boyd¹

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The 1857 criminal trial of Madeleine Smith for the murder of Pierre Emile L’Angelier became a cause célèbre throughout the British world. Enmeshed with scandal and speculation, it involved a secret affair between a young upper middle-class Glasgow woman and her older foreign lover of lower social standing; accusations of arsenic poisoning that led to his demise; erotic love letters that were read out in court; and an inconclusive—and uniquely Scottish—verdict of ‘not proven’. In 1866, a butcher under the name of Thomas Castro from Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, claimed to be the heir to an ancient English baronetcy: the Tichborne estates. Similarly described as its own cause célèbre, the Tichborne baronetcy case spanned two long-running civil and criminal trials and led to a political movement in Britain that continued to take aim at political, legal, and religious institutions long after the trials had ended, in 1874. Although the crimes at the centre of the two cases were incongruous, both Madeleine Smith and the Tichborne Claimant ignited significant public debate over criminal procedures, class, gender, and identity. Smith’s case played a key role in the development of ‘sensation’ journalism and literature centred on the violent propensities that lurked beneath the seemingly respectable and repressive Victorian social code, while the Tichborne Claimant’s case confronted Britons with anxieties around the definition of ‘respectability’ and the homecoming of expatriates from the colonies. While coverage of the cases has been well-documented within Britain, less scholarly attention has been paid to their pervasive coverage in the colony of Australia. Both cases were major news items in the colonial press, as updates on the trials were sourced from British media outlets and published in local newspapers almost daily. So pervasive was the coverage that gossip and misinformation surrounding the two cases spread throughout Australia and, to a lesser extent, New Zealand, as speculation surrounded Smith’s later whereabouts over the late nineteenth century and questions about the Tichborne Claimant’s identity lingered. By examining the widespread coverage of the cases in Australia, this work explores how the cases harnessed the communicative powers of the press and stirred sensation in and outside of Britain. Both cases played a role in forging British-Australian transnational identities in the colonies, as Australian newspapers lent their unique voices to associated British metropolitan discussions and weighed in on the respective trial verdicts. With Smith embodying the perceived exodus of undesirable migrants to Australia and the Tichborne Claimant representing colonial life being brought back to the British metropole, Australian newspapers also used the cases to confront the way British metropolitan newspapers wrote about the colony. Fixation on the appearances, manners, and movements of Smith and the Tichborne Claimant, and the crimes with which they were implicated, meant that the Australian newspaper press became an arena for long-standing and far-reaching debate about class, social respectability, gender, sexuality, criminality, and colonial justice.

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Colonial Networks and the Periodical Marketplace

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Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840

Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840

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