Empire of Convicts - 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 Empire of Convicts write by Anand A. Yang. This book was released on 2021-01-19. Empire of Convicts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deportations first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in the Indian Ocean World that brought South Asia and Southeast Asia together through a global system of forced migration and coerced labor. A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World, Empire of Convicts narrates the experiences of Indian bandwars (convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming “their own warders.” Anand A. Yang brings long journeys across kala pani (black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts.
Convicts
Convicts - 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 write by Clare Anderson. This book was released on 2022-01-13. Convicts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.
Convicts and Orphans
Convicts and Orphans - 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 and Orphans write by Timothy J. Coates. This book was released on 2001. Convicts and Orphans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire. In addition, it addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas.
Gender, Crime and Empire
Gender, Crime and Empire - 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 Gender, Crime and Empire write by Kristy Reid. This book was released on 2007. Gender, Crime and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies--which depicted convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group--Gender, Crime, and Empire argues that convict men and women in fact had much in common. Comparing men and women, ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and the body, this book argues that fuller account of class must take place to understand the relationships between gender and power. The book considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships, and attempts at family formation that became matters of class conflict. It explores the ways gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government.
Exile in Colonial Asia
Exile in Colonial Asia - 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 Exile in Colonial Asia write by Ronit Ricci. This book was released on 2016-05-31. Exile in Colonial Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” royals banished as political exiles; “convicts,” the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and “commemoration,” referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. In addition to presenting fascinating, little-known, and varied case studies of exile in colonial Asia and Australia, the chapters collectively offer a sweeping, contextualized, comparative approach that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales. Rather than confining research to the European colonial archives, whenever possible the authors put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. Exile in Colonial Asia invites imaginative methodological innovation in exploring multiple archives and expands our theoretical frontiers in thinking about the interconnected histories of penal deportation, labor migration, political exile, colonial expansion, and individual destinies.
