Samuel Revans and Company: Colonial Commercial Trade Newspapers in the Age of Responsible Government
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter focuses on Samuel Revans (1807–88), who was responsible for newspapers in different colonies – The Montreal Daily Advertiser in Canada and the Wellington-based The New Zealand Gazette. The two publications are located in their respective political and economic contexts to correct misperceptions about their ideological priorities and commitments. Noting that The Advertiser in Canada has routinely been characterised as sympathetic to the radical Reform Party, and the Gazette as a mouthpiece of the pro-establishment New Zealand Company, the chapter looks beyond the two periodicals’ political articles to read both in their entirety and in relation to Revans’s personal writings. The conclusion is that underlying the different political causes Revans pursued in Canada and New Zealand, he was consistent in serving the economic interests of the settler colonies in both contexts. Although Revans’s political positions in Canada and New Zealand were at odds with each other, his publications in both colonies always provided comprehensive trade information in order to inform and thus promote the expanding settler-colonial economies. Revans consistently supported the development of colonial markets, the engagement of colonists in global trade, and the improvement of government to support free enterprise and reward hard work and good character.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".