Interrogating the relationship between politeness and violence in Warrane/Sydney, 1788–ca. 1816, this article investigates the impact of Enlightenment thought in the transoceanic British colonial world. The author argues that polite sociability was crucial to the imposition and self-justification of the British occupation of Eora country. Principally examining the published and personal journals and diaries of First Fleet officers, the author reveals how politeness was a display of European notions of civility understood within a stadial model of progress: Enlightenment ideology enabled the ruling naval elite to consider their invasion friendly, despite the lethal violence of colonial occupation. Foregrounding the construction and performance of a status-specific whiteness in colonial space, the author shows how politeness in the colonial context justified rather than mitigated violence. In so doing, they hope to destabilize our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment, politeness, and violence. In what is primarily a study of Enlightenment and settler colonialism, Indigenous perspectives provide a crucial framework to comprehend the British naval elites’ commitment to the imposition of civility by force in Warrane/Sydney.

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1788-1816 年新南威尔士州“边境”的礼貌、礼貌和暴力

询问 Warrane/Sydney 中礼貌与暴力之间的关系，1788–ca。1816 年，这篇文章调查了启蒙思想对越洋英国殖民世界的影响。作者认为，礼貌的社交能力对于英国占领 Eora 国家的强加和自我辩护至关重要。作者主要研究了第一舰队军官出版的和个人的期刊和日记，揭示了礼貌是如何体现欧洲文明观念在进步的阶段模型中的理解：启蒙意识形态使执政的海军精英认为他们的入侵是友好的，尽管殖民占领的致命暴力。突出殖民空间中特定身份的白色的构建和表现，作者展示了殖民地背景下的礼貌如何证明而不是减轻暴力。通过这样做，他们希望动摇我们对苏格兰启蒙运动、礼貌和暴力的理解。在主要研究启蒙运动和定居者殖民主义的研究中，土著视角提供了一个重要框架，以理解英国海军精英对在沃兰/悉尼以武力强加文明的承诺。