1. Martyrs to liberty: transporting radicals in the age of revolution -- 2. 'Death or liberty!': the rebels of 1798 in Ireland and Australia -- 3. Protest from below: British rebels of field and factory -- 4. North American patriots vs. the empire: Canadian revolutionaries in exile -- 5. Out of Ireland: transported martyrs and the making of a nation -- 6. Conclusion: traces of liberty
Summary
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's 'terrorists' - to the shores of Australia. Criminals and traitors in the eyes of the law, many of these transported political prisoners were heroes and martyrs to their own communities. In Death or Liberty historian Tony Moore brings new life to their stories and restores them to their rightful place in Australian and world history
Analysis
Political conditions
History, Pre-1801
History, 1801-1900
Colonies
Great Britain
Prisoners
Political prisoners
North America
Ireland
Political prisoners - Australia - History
Prisoners - Transportation - Australia - History
Exiles - Australia - History
Penal colonies - Great Britain
Revolutionaries - Australia - History
Great Britain - Politics and government - History
Transportation of convicts - Australia
Australia - History - 1788-1900
Convicts - Australia - History
Penal colonies - Australia - History
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-422) and index
Notes
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