Contents
Dystopia’s Militants, c 1850‒1900
Deep Code: Old Erin, c 1800–1850
The Codes Adapted: Field to Factory, Manchester, 1850
The Family: Seeds and Weeds, Ancoats, 1850‒1875
The Makings of the Man: An Ancoats Youth, 1850–1880
Criminal Cousins: Economic Survival and Social Capital, Ancoats, 1875‒1880
Escape into Empire: The Voyage of the Albatross, 1880‒1881
Among Legends and Myths of the Bush, Australia, 1882‒1886
The Southern African Mineral Revolution and the College of Banditry, c 1886
The Frontiers of Gold and Beyond: Eureka City and Delagoa Bay, 1886‒1887
Organised Crime in a Frontier Town: Johannesburg, the Kruger State and the Depression of 1889‒1892
Metamorphosis: To Potchefstroom and Back, 1890
Humiliation and Rage: A Mind and Body Imprisoned, Johannesburg and Pretoria, 1891‒1892
Regaining Caste: Johannesburg Rising, 1892‒1893
The Lures of Domesticity: Marriages of Inconvenience, Johannesburg, 1893
Retreat to the New Frontiers: Matabeleland and Vendaland, 1894
The Grammar of Justice: Honour and Death, Johannesburg, 1895
The Spectres of Success: Johannesburg to Lourenço Marques, 1895
The Reality of Failure: India, 1895
The Imperial Eye Averted: Auckland, New Zealand, 1895‒1896
Courting Solitude: Auckland to Christchurch, 1896‒1900
The Great Walkabout: Australia, 1901‒1904
The Fatal Circuit: Australia, New Zealand, Australia, 1904‒1909
The Tinker’s Curse: Brisbane to Durban, 1909
Courts and Contexts: Men and Mindsets, Johannesburg, 1909