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Author : Alexander Maconochie
Publisher : Hobart Town [Tasmania] : J.C. Macdougall
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010232085
Author : Adam Wakeling
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922454140
In 1788, Great Britain founded a colony in Australia to swallow up its criminals. And swallow them it did – more than 160,000 men and women were transported to the Australian colonies over eight decades. Remarkably, these colonies swiftly developed into robust and innovative democracies. The 1856 Victorian election was the first in the world where voters took a government-printed ballot paper, took it into a private voting booth to fill it out, then put it in a ballot box. And Australians have kept this democratic model ever since. A House of Commons for a Den of Thieves is the story of how the citizens of these colonies threw off the stigma of their criminal origins and asserted their rights. Not only against imperial authorities in London but also those wealthy and powerful men in the colonies themselves who distrusted the idea of mass democracy. And through their success, they created a lasting democratic tradition that their descendants have expanded and built on up until the present day.
Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526756315
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.
Author : Simon Barnard
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781925410235
At least thirty-seven per cent of male convicts and fifteen per cent of female convicts were tattooed by the time they arrived in the penal colonies, making Australians quite possibly the world's most heavily tattooed English-speaking people of the nineteenth century. Each convict’s details, including their tattoos, were recorded when they disembarked, providing an extensive physical account of Australia's convict men and women. Simon Barnard has meticulously combed through those records to reveal a rich pictorial history. Convict Tattoos explores various aspects of tattooing—from the symbolism of tattoo motifs to inking methods, from their use as means of identification and control to expressions of individualism and defiance—providing a fascinating glimpse of the lives of the people behind the records. Simon Barnard was born and grew up in Launceston. He spent a lot of time in the bush as a boy, which led to an interest in Tasmanian history. He is a writer, illustrator and collector of colonial artifacts. He now lives in Melbourne. He won the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books in the 2015 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year awards for his first book, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land. Convict Tattoos is his second book. ‘The early years of penal settlement have been recounted many times, yet Convict Tattoos genuinely breaks new ground by examining a common if neglected feature of convict culture found among both male and female prisoners.’ Australian ‘This niche subject has proved fertile ground for Barnard—who is ink-free—by providing a glimpse into the lives of the people behind the historical records, revealing something of their thoughts, feelings and experiences.’ Mercury 'The best thing to happen in Australian tattoo history since Cook landed. A must-have for any tattoo historian.’ Brett Stewart, Australian Tattoo Museum
Author : Alexander Maconochie
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358355266
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Lloyd Evans,Paul Nicholls
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040901212
Author : Alexander Maconochie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543249809
Cpt. Alexander Maconochie was a pioneer in penal reform, and suffered the fate of men in advance of their times. His concepts and many of his practical measures are now the basis of Western penal systems. The book (written in 1839) includes a summary of Official Papers on Convict Discipline, and numerous essays on systems of managing criminals, degradation as an element in punishment, management of female convicts, crime, etc.
Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526718396
“A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay.” —Pirates and Privateers 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 empires 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, Convicts in the Colonies 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 punishments in history. “An easily read, fascinating history, telling the tales of the ‘recidivist’ convicts in the 18th and 19th centuries.” —The Essex Family Historian
Author : Alexander Maconochie
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1377404145
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Babette Smith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459613461
Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past? Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia....
Author : Simon Ville,Glenn Withers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316194485
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.
Author : Alan George Lewers Shaw
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000133803
Professor Shaw examines the working of the transportation system far beyond the horror story level, and puts it in its proper place as one of various modes of punishment used in the English penal system, considering its reformatory as well as its deterrent features. He reminds us that Australia was not the only colony to which British statesmen wanted to send their felons, and discusses projects of transportation to the American colonies and South Africa. He incidentally throws light on some of the considerations which led to the foundation of Australia, and the choice of Botany Bay. His discussion of the character of the convicts settles the long arguments about the criminality of Australia's founding fathers, by subjecting their records to rigorous scrutiny.
Author : Alexander Maconochie
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1230303561
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...a selfish purpose), --would speedily grow up at all the Stations, aud be altogether invaluable as a source of moral improvement. It would have almost every good property as a system of management, and not one bad ohe as regards the prisoners themselves, for it would be in the highest degree morally coercive, yet not physically obligatory at all. Every one would think he enjoyed full freedom of will, --yet every one would be Under the almost absolute controul of impulses, common to all, lyet personal to each, and which could not fail, therefore, of generating an esprit de corps productive of harmonious effect. I would not even assign rations; but enabling each party to purchase what it required, or chose to consume, I would train up moderation and economy, as in ordinary life, by making the acquisition, or forfeiture, of their appropriate rewards depend entirely on each party's own conduct, and be its natural consequence. Rations appear to me in every case morally Injurious, --for either they are inadequate in quantity, quality, or both, and thus make men discontented, --or they are too good, and form habits of wasteful prodigality. Both effects may be seen at present in the Penal Colonies; but the latter is more common and enduring; and is exemplified also in the frequent careless expenditure of retired Soldiers and Sailors. 8.--I should almost be afraid, indeed, (as I have said elsewhere), that the stimulus thus produced might in some cases be too strong, --and, if not watched, of too low a character. It might produce excessive severity, among the probationers themselves, towards the trifling offences which from time to time forfeited marks;--and it might make good conduct in their estimation to be only valued as obtaining them. But t
Author : Sean Winter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527502727
Between 1850 and 1868, approximately 10,000 British convicts were transported to Western Australia, in one of the final phases of global penal transportation. The arrival of these men utterly transformed the small Swan River Colony, bringing capital, labour, population influx, and contact with the outside world. Yet their contribution has been downplayed in Western Australian history, outweighed by a sense of shame that the first free Australian colony requested voluntary conversion to penal status in order to survive. This book, based on the author’s PhD research in archaeology, investigates the lives of convicts transported to Western Australia, and in particular, how their presence in the colony served as a form of modernity, fundamentally transforming it in the process. It focuses on the use of the administrative category of the ticket-of-leave to allow convict labour to be used throughout the colony. As such, the text examines the impact of the convict system on regional areas of Western Australia concentrating on the Eastern District communities of Guildford, Toodyay and York, and the convicts who worked there. Using archaeological data from three convict depots, supported by a range of other data sources such as historical documents, genealogical information and oral histories, the nature of convict life in the regions is teased out. In the process, the unique nature of the Western Australian penal colony is demonstrated and the contribution of convicts to the history of the state explored.
Author : Sophie Fuggle,Charles Forsdick,Katharina Massing
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031193965
This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range of geographies and historical instances of the penal colony, it seeks to identify how the ‘penal colony’ as a widespread phenomenon is as much ‘imagined’ and creatively instrumentalized as it pertains to real sites and populations. It concentrates on the range of ‘media’ produced in and around penal colonies both during their operation and following their closures. This approach emphasizes the role of cross-disciplinary methods and approaches to examining the history and legacy of convict transportation, prison islands and other sites of exile. It develops a range of methodological tools for engaging with cultures and representations of incarceration, detention and transportation. The chapters draw on media discourse analysis, critical cartography, museum and heritage studies, ethnography, architectural history, visual culture including film and comics studies and gaming studies. It aims to disrupt the idea of adopting linear histories or isolated geographies in order to understand the impact and legacy of penal colonies. The overall claim made by the collection is that understanding the cultural production associated with this global phenomenon is a necessary part of a wider examination of carceral imaginaries or ‘penal spectatorship’ (Brown, 2009) past, present and future. It brings together historiography, criminology, media and cultural studies.
