[PDF] Convicts And Colonial Society 1788 1853 eBook

Author : Stephen Nicholas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521361262

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This work offers a new interpretation of Australia's convict past. It is based on a detailed analysis of records of 20,000 male and female convicts - one in three of those transported to New South Wales between 1817 and 1840.

Author : Joy Damousi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521587235

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This innovative book marks a new way of looking at convict women. It tells their stories in a powerful and evocative way, drawing out broader themes of gender and sexual disorder and race and class dynamics in a colonial context. It considers the convict past in light of contemporary concerns, looking at the cultural meanings of aspects of life in the colony: on ships, in the factories and in orphanages. Using startlingly original research, Joy Damousi considers such varied topics as headshaving as punishment in the prisons and the subversive nature of laughter and play, as well as analysing the language of pollution, purity and abandonment. She also dicusses the nature of sexual relationships, including evidence of lesbianism. The book shows how understanding about sexual and racial difference was crucial for both the maintenance and disturbance of colonial society, and became a focus for cultural anxiety.

Author : Martha Grace Duncan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 1999-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814718817

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Emerging from her fascination with anarchists while studying political science at Columbia, Duncan (law, Emory U.) explores the paradoxes of crime, such as law-abiding citizens who like to commit violent criminal deeds, convicts who find beauty in their prison yards, and wardens who lose their jobs because they are actually succeeding at rehabilitating their charges. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Simon Ville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 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.

Author : George Peter Shaw
Publisher : Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Biography of William Grant Broughton 1788-1853. Includes recurring references to mission work among Aboriginal people, and relations between Aboriginal people and colonists.

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0307815609

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.