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Contents

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INTRODUCTION

Dystopia’s Militants, c 1850‒1900

 

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CHAPTER ONE

Deep Code: Old Erin, c 1800–1850

CHAPTER TWO

The Codes Adapted: Field to Factory, Manchester, 1850

CHAPTER THREE

The Family: Seeds and Weeds, Ancoats, 1850‒1875

CHAPTER FOUR

The Makings of the Man: An Ancoats Youth, 1850–1880

CHAPTER FIVE

Criminal Cousins: Economic Survival and Social Capital, Ancoats, 1875‒1880

CHAPTER SIX

Escape into Empire: The Voyage of the Albatross, 1880‒1881

CHAPTER SEVEN

Among Legends and Myths of the Bush, Australia, 1882‒1886

 

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CHAPTER EIGHT

The Southern African Mineral Revolution and the College of Banditry, c 1886

CHAPTER NINE

The Frontiers of Gold and Beyond: Eureka City and Delagoa Bay, 1886‒1887

CHAPTER TEN

Organised Crime in a Frontier Town: Johannesburg, the Kruger State and the Depression of 1889‒1892

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Metamorphosis: To Potchefstroom and Back, 1890

CHAPTER TWELVE

Humiliation and Rage: A Mind and Body Imprisoned, Johannesburg and Pretoria, 1891‒1892

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Regaining Caste: Johannesburg Rising, 1892‒1893

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The Lures of Domesticity: Marriages of Inconvenience, Johannesburg, 1893

 

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Retreat to the New Frontiers: Matabeleland and Vendaland, 1894

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The Grammar of Justice: Honour and Death, Johannesburg, 1895

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

The Spectres of Success: Johannesburg to Lourenço Marques, 1895

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The Reality of Failure: India, 1895

CHAPTER NINETEEN

The Imperial Eye Averted: Auckland, New Zealand, 1895‒1896

CHAPTER TWENTY

Courting Solitude: Auckland to Christchurch, 1896‒1900

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

The Great Walkabout: Australia, 1901‒1904

 

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

The Fatal Circuit: Australia, New Zealand, Australia, 1904‒1909

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

The Tinker’s Curse: Brisbane to Durban, 1909

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Courts and Contexts: Men and Mindsets, Johannesburg, 1909

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

The Trial: Johannesburg, 1909

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Death: Pretoria, 1910

 

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