| Description |
xvi, 688 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Harbor and the exiles -- 2. A horse foaled by an acorn -- 3. The geographical unconscious -- 4. The starvation years -- 5. The voyage6. Who were the convicts? -- 7. bolters and bushrangers -- 8. Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- 9. The Government stroke -- 10. Gentlement of New South Wales -- 11. To plough Van Diemen's Land -- 12. Metastasis -- 13. Norfolk Island -- 14. Toward abolition -- 15. A special scourge -- 16. The aristocracy be we -- 17. The end of the system |
| Summary |
"Description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system." - cover |
| Analysis |
Colonies |
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Convicts |
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History, 1801-1900 |
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Prisoners |
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Sea transport |
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History, Pre-1801 |
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Social conditions |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 656-670 |
| Audience |
General |
| Subject |
British -- Australia -- Social conditions.
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Prisoners -- Australia -- History.
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Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.
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Penal colonies, British -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593
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| Author |
Hughes, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0099448548 (paperback) |
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0099459159 |
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9780099448549 (paperback) |
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