Convict society and its enemies: a history of early New South Wales (1983) -- The strange birth of colonial democracy: New South Wales 1848-1884 (1988)
Summary
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their ""own time"", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: ""This was not a society that had to bec
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-546) and index
