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DESCRIPTION
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
ALSO BY CHARLES VAN ONSELEN
TITLE PAGE
DEDICATION
LIST OF MAPS
INTRODUCTION: Dystopia’s Militants, c 1850‒1900
Spring
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
Summer
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
Autumn
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
Winter
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
PICTURE SECTION
NOTES
A NOTE ON SOURCES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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