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Johannesburg, South Africa, was ? and is ? the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African 'Regiment of the Hills' and 'Irish Brigade' bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns was commonplace. Beyond the chaos were clear signs of another struggle, one to maintain control, honour and order within the emerging male and mining dominated culture. In the underworld, the dictum of 'honour among thieves', as well as a hatred of informers, testified to attempts at

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Abstract
All social systems ‐ including highly repressive ones ‐ manifest features of accommodation as well as those of coercion. These are often seen as discrete entities and, in the case of modern South Africa, the pervasiveness of racial oppression has given rise to a literature which fails to explore more accommodatory ideologies and social practices such as paternalism. In this essay it is argued that paternalism and violence are not necessarily exclusive phenomena. Indeed, it is suggested that the very presence of paternalistic relationships can ‐ at various historic junctures ‐ exacerbate the propensity to violence.

Foreword / by Robert E. May -- Introduction. looking up from the last of history -- North Atlantic revolutions and South African realities : plotting urban insurrection in an agrarian economy, September 1894 -- American sway and acquisitive ways : capitalist culture and the foundations of the Witwatersrand, c1890-1899 -- The makings of Cowboy Jack : John Hays Hammond and the Wild West, 1855-1883 -- Cowboy capitalists, part I :trails in the northern Rockies, 1882-1892 -- Cowboy capitalists, part II :the siege of Bunker Hill and flight, 1892-1893 -- Ghost riders of the Coeur d'Alene :the pursuit of Hammond, Johannesburg, 1893-1894 -- Sheriff Bob blinks and Cowboy Jack steps up : Johannesburg sunlight, San Francisco shadow, 1894-1895 -- Rivalries in the camp :the Beit boys and the Rhodes boys, c1890-1895 -- Dr. Jim's American outriders and medicine men, c1891-1895 -- Wisps and curls rising above the brew : a chronological outline of the plot, c1894-1895 -- Cowboy Jack's secret aspirations : abducting the president and the District of Columbia template, October-December 1895 -- Rangers and rustlers, c. October-mid-December, 1895 -- Cowboy Jack talks fast and fires blanks : from revolutionary imperialist to republican constitutionalist in four days, 29 December 1895 to 2 January 1896 -- The big roundup : a weak agrarian state corrals ascendant mining capitalists, 3-9 January 1896 -- Intelligence and counterintelligence networks in Johannesburg and Pretoria, c1890-1895 -- State attorney versus state president, 1894-1895 -- Mobilisation and manoeuvring, 1895-1896 -- Managing the aftermath, 1895-1896 -- Agents, conspirators and collaborators : buying time, saving face, 1895-1896 -- Organising a rescue party for Cowboy Jack :the Old South reaches out to Washington, DC, 1896 -- The Kruger government in the saddle and Uncle Sam has a word with Oom Paul, 1896 -- Smoking the peace pipe without inhaling : Hammond and Jameson, c1895-1896 -- Aligning fact and fiction : regaining a reputation lost, c1895-1899 -- Back in a country fit for cowboy heroes : Hammond's American success renewed, 1899-1906 -- The phantom vice president : greasing the squeaky wheels of big business, c1906-1913 -- From the court of St James's to the Mexican revolution : diplomacy and the dark arts, c1910-1914 -- Hammond, Mexico and transnational capitalism, c1909-1917 -- A uniform of greed : sword of colonialism, shield of law, c1913-1920 -- Riding shotgun into history : the Old West negotiates the 20th century, c1914-1936 -- Conclusion. John Hays Hammond and the Jameson raid read as American imperial history -- Notes -- A cautionary note: the historiography of the Jameson raid