Convicts In The Colonies

Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526756315

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Convicts in the Colonies by Lucy Williams Pdf

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 : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038355413

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Bound for America by A. Roger Ekirch Pdf

During the 18th century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. This study combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders during this period in both the UK and the USA.

Author : Clare Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350000698

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A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies by Clare Anderson Pdf

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.

Author : Alan George Lewers Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Penal colonies
ISBN : OCLC:655198412

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Convicts and the Colonies by Alan George Lewers Shaw Pdf

Author : Alan George Lewers Shaw
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000133803

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Convicts and the Colonies by Alan George Lewers Shaw Pdf

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 : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526718396

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Convicts in the Colonies by Lucy Williams Pdf

“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 : Shaw, A G L
Publisher : Melbourne University Press Digital
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0522862977

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Convicts And The Colonies by Shaw, A G L Pdf

This foundation text presents a close look at the transportation system that sets it in its context as one of various modes of punishment used in the English penal system. It considers the reformatory as well as the deterrent features of the system. The author 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 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 many of the longstanding arguments about the criminality of Australia's founders by subjecting their records to rigorous scrutiny.

Author : Anthony Vaver
Publisher : Pickpocket Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bound with an Iron Chain by Anthony Vaver Pdf

Most people know that England shipped thousands of convicts to Australia, but few are aware that colonial America was the original destination for Britain's unwanted criminals. In the 18th century, thousands of British convicts were separated from their families, chained together in the hold of a ship, and carried off to America, sometimes for the theft of a mere handkerchief.What happened to these convicts once they arrived in America? Did they prosper in an environment of unlimited opportunity, or were they ostracized by the other colonists? Anthony Vaver tells the stories of the petty thieves and professional criminals who were punished by being sent across the ocean to work on plantations. In bringing to life this forgotten chapter in American history, he challenges the way we think about immigration to early America.The book also includes a helpful appendix with tips on researching individual convicts transported to America.

Author : David Hill
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760872410

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Convict Colony by David Hill Pdf

The author of the magnificent bestselling account of the First Fleet returns to early Sydney to tell the story of the years that followed as it's never been told before. The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. The motley crew of unruly marines and bedraggled convicts who arrived at Botany Bay in 1788 in leaky boats nearly starved to death. They could easily have been murdered by hostile locals, been overwhelmed by an attack from French or Spanish expeditions, or brought undone by the Castle Hill uprising of 1804. Yet through fortunate decisions, a few remarkably good leaders, and most of all good luck, Sydney survived and thrived. Bestselling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in Australia in a fresh and compelling way. 'David Hill captures Australia's past in a very readable way.' The Weekly Times

Author : Stephen A. Toth
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803244498

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Beyond Papillon by Stephen A. Toth Pdf

A multilayered social and cultural analysis that focuses upon the will of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the bagne, or penal colony.

Author : Alan G. L. Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Exiles
ISBN : OCLC:77486040

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Convicts and the Colonies by Alan G. L. Shaw Pdf

Author : Emma Christopher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199782550

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A Merciless Place by Emma Christopher Pdf

"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004285026

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Global Convict Labour by Anonim Pdf

In Global Convict Labour, nineteen contributors offer a global and comparative history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from the Antiquity to the present.

Author : Alexander Maconochie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Australia
ISBN : MINN:319510020110313

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Australiana by Alexander Maconochie Pdf

Author : Clare Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840729

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Convicts by Clare Anderson Pdf

A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.