TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russell,Penelope Ann
TI  - Savage or civilised?: manners in colonial Australia 
SN  - 9780868408606 (pbk.)
AV  - BJ2007.A8 R87 2010
U1  - 390.0994 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - New South
KW  - Courtesy
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 1788-1900
KW  - Etiquette
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - "A New South book"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-401) and index; Civil frontiers -- Gestures of peace and friendship -- Squatters and gentlemen -- High society -- Transgressions of a lady -- Defending professional honour -- Domestic worlds -- Trials of a governess -- Duties of a good husband -- Keeping up appearances -- New publics -- Street parade -- Social climbing
N2  - 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
ER  -