Empire Of Convicts

Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520967595

Get Book

Empire of Convicts by Anand A. Yang Pdf

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.

Author : Clare Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840729

Get Book

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.

Author : Clare Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350000698

Get Book

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 : Timothy J. Coates
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804733597

Get Book

Convicts and Orphans by Timothy J. Coates Pdf

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.

Author : Lucy Frost (Professor),Colette McAlpine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0987144383

Get Book

From the Edges of Empire by Lucy Frost (Professor),Colette McAlpine Pdf

Author : Timothy J. Coates
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004254312

Get Book

Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, 1740-1932 by Timothy J. Coates Pdf

Forced convict labor provided the Portuguese with solutions to the growing criminal population at home and the lack of infrastructure in Angola and Mozambique. In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the role of large numbers of convicts in Portuguese Africa from 1800 until 1932. This work examines the numbers, rationale, and realities of convict labor (largely) in Angola during this period, but Mozambique is a secondary area, as well as late colonial times in Brazil. This is a unique, first study of an experiment in convict labor in Africa directed by a European power; it will be welcomed by scholars of Africa and New Imperialism, as well as those interested in law and labor.

Author : Ronit Ricci
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824853754

Get Book

Exile in Colonial Asia by Ronit Ricci Pdf

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.

Author : Hilary M. Carey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043084

Get Book

Empire of Hell by Hilary M. Carey Pdf

Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.

Author : Kirsty Reid
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526118592

Get Book

Gender, crime and empire by Kirsty Reid Pdf

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen’s Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact shared much in common. Placing men and women, ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality and the body, in comparative perspective, this book argues that historians must take fuller account of class to understand the relationships between gender and power. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order initially informed the state’s model of order, and the reasons why this foundered. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government.

Author : Kristy Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124007340

Get Book

Gender, Crime and Empire by Kristy Reid Pdf

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.

Author : Kirsty Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526118602

Get Book

Gender, Crime and Empire by Kirsty Reid Pdf

Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperial and colonial states.

Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520329607

Get Book

The Limited Raj by Anand A. Yang Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : Philip J. Havik,Helena Pinto Janeiro,Pedro Aires Oliveira,Irene Flunser Pimentel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000457735

Get Book

Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century by Philip J. Havik,Helena Pinto Janeiro,Pedro Aires Oliveira,Irene Flunser Pimentel Pdf

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it. The contributors offer a reassessment of the history of politically motivated incarceration based upon a multi-disciplinary perspective in a global, imperial setting during the twentieth century. The introduction and seven chapters engage with comparative and transnational perspectives on political persecution, forced confinement and colonial rule in British, French, German, Belgian and Portuguese dominions in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. Addressing political incarceration's global imperial dimensions, they focus upon the organisation, strategies, narratives and practices associated with political internment in Africa (Angola, Tanzania, Rhodesia, South Africa), Latin America (French Guyana) and the Pacific region (New Caledonia). Penal legislation, policies of convict transport and political imprisonment, resettlement, prison regimes, resistance and liberation struggles, counter insurgency, prisoner agency, and prisons as cultural spaces and of memory are discussed here for different time periods from the mid-1800s to the late twentieth century. The chapters build upon the ongoing debate on political incarceration in the empire and the remarkable dynamic scientific research witnessed over the last decades. As a result, they provide novel insights into the nature of legal systems, colonial discourse, memory, racial segregation and persecution, prisoners’ narratives of practices of punishment and incarceration, and human rights abuses in imperial spaces. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The editors have also written an original conclusion to the present volume.

Author : Talitha L. LeFlouria
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469622484

Get Book

Chained in Silence by Talitha L. LeFlouria Pdf

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia's prison system and what their labor accomplished. LeFlouria argues that African American women's presence within the convict lease and chain-gang systems of Georgia helped to modernize the South by creating a new and dynamic set of skills for black women. At the same time, female inmates struggled to resist physical and sexual exploitation and to preserve their human dignity within a hostile climate of terror. This revealing history redefines the social context of black women's lives and labor in the New South and allows their stories to be told for the first time.

Author : Alan George Lewers Shaw
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000133803

Get Book

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.