Savage or Civilised: Manners in Colonial Australia

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In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also sensed the savagery lurking in white society. Manners mattered, to individuals and to society. Original and compelling, Savage or Civilised is the story of behaviour, respect and manners in colonial Australia.

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Penny Russell teaches history at the University of Sydney. She is the author of This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839 and A Wish of Distinction: Colonial Gentility and Femininity and the coeditor of Australia's History: Themes and Debates and Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity.