Convicts in the Colonies
Convicts in the Colonies

Author: Lucy Williams

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2019-10-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781526756312

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In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia - from the first to the final fleet. Using the latest original research, Lucy Williams reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies - New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia - this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishment in history.

A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies

Author: Clare Anderson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1350000698

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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.

Bound for America
Bound for America

Author: A. Roger Ekirch

Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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During the 18th century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. This study combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders during this period in both the UK and the USA.

A Merciless Place
A Merciless Place

Author: Emma Christopher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0199782555

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"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.

Convict Colony
Convict Colony

Author: David Hill

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1760872415

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The author of the magnificent bestselling account of the First Fleet returns to early Sydney to tell the story of the years that followed as it's never been told before. The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. The motley crew of unruly marines and bedraggled convicts who arrived at Botany Bay in 1788 in leaky boats nearly starved to death. They could easily have been murdered by hostile locals, been overwhelmed by an attack from French or Spanish expeditions, or brought undone by the Castle Hill uprising of 1804. Yet through fortunate decisions, a few remarkably good leaders, and most of all good luck, Sydney survived and thrived. Bestselling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in Australia in a fresh and compelling way. 'David Hill captures Australia's past in a very readable way.' The Weekly Times

Convicts
Convicts

Author: Clare Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1108840728

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A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.

The Cambridge Economic History of Australia
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia

Author: Simon Ville

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-08

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 1316194485

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Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.

Beyond Papillon
Beyond Papillon

Author: Stephen A. Toth

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0803244495

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A multilayered social and cultural analysis that focuses upon the will of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the bagne, or penal colony.

Empire of Hell
Empire of Hell

Author: Hilary M. Carey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-14

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1107043085

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

A History of the Port Phillip District
A History of the Port Phillip District

Author: A. G. L. Shaw

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780522850642

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This account of European settlement in the modern state of Victoria, Australia, spans developments from the first convict camp established in 1803 on the Bass Strait to the contemporary separation of the district from New South Wales. Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators, and immigrants figure into this history of Victoria before the gold rush. The stories of such key leaders as John Baton and John Pascoe Fawkner offer insight into the founding of Melbourne, the economic depression and recovery of the 19th century, and the social progress of the 20th century. Details are drawn from primary sources including correspondence between officials in Melbourne, Sydney, and London and newspapers from Batman, Swanston, the Port Phillip Association, and La Trobe.