Title Australia's birthstain : the startling legacy of the convict era / Babette Smith

Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits Contents Also by the author; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Something to Hide; Chapter 2 -- Amnesia; Chapter 3 -- An Amazing Cast of Characters; Chapter 4 -- A Convict Community; Chapter 5 -- Outward bound; Chapter 6 -- The Bathurst Road; Chapter 7 -- An Unclean Thing; Chapter 8 -- A Pervading Stain; Chapter 9 -- Best Forgotten; Chapter 10 -- Distinctions of Moral Breed; Chapter 11 -- The Lost World; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary A groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-386) and index Notes Print version record Subject Prisoners -- Australia -- History Prisoners -- Social aspects -- Australia Prisoners -- Australia -- Social life and customs Penal colonies -- Australia -- History HISTORY. Colonial influence Penal colonies Prisoners Prisoners -- Social aspects Prisoners -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592 Australia -- History -- 1851-1901 Australia -- History -- Colonial influence Subject Australia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781741768671 1741768675 9781741155846 1741155843

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