| Abstract: | An examination of strategies for governing the Australian colonies in the middle of the nineteenth century. A simply coercive approach was regarded as impractical and was not consonant with liberal philosophy. New techniques of governing, which stressed the formation of an emotional link between mother country and colony, emerged at about the same time as ancient Greek models of empire enjoyed a renaissance. Fidelity, assured by a number of innovative techniques, and a new 'looser' approach to governing both drew an intellectual justification from antiquity. |
