Convicts in the Colonies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Convicts in the Colonies write by Lucy Williams. This book was released on 2019-10-19. Convicts in the Colonies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia - from the first to the final fleet. Using the latest original research, Lucy Williams reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies - New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia - this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishment in history.
A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies write by Clare Anderson. This book was released on 2018-05-17. A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Leicester. Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin's gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world. A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies builds on specific regional archives and literatures to write the first global history of penal transportation. The essays explore the idea of penal transportation as an engine of global change, in which political repression and forced labour combined to produce long-term impacts on economy, society and identity. They investigate the varied and interconnected routes convicts took to penal sites across the world, and the relationship of these convict flows to other forms of punishment, unfree labour, military service and indigenous incarceration. They also explore the lived worlds of convicts, including work, culture, religion and intimacy, and convict experience and agency.
Bound for America
Bound for America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bound for America write by A. Roger Ekirch. This book was released on 1990-08-02. Bound for America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 1718 to 1775 British courts transported 50,000 convicts to America. This account of their transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Economic History of Australia write by Simon Ville. This book was released on 2014-10-08. The Cambridge Economic History of Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.
A Merciless Place
A Merciless Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Merciless Place write by Emma Christopher. This book was released on 2011-07. A Merciless Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
