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Convicts and the colonies : a study of penal transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire / A.G.L. Shaw.
Record no.:
233
Author:
Shaw, A. G. L. (Alan George Lewers), 1916-2012;
Publisher:
London :: Faber and Faber,
Year:
1966.
Description:
399 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject:
Transportation of convicts - Australia.;
Prisoners - Australia.;
Penal colonies.;
Penal colonies - Great Britain - Colonies.;
Transportation of convicts - Great Britain.;
Penal colonies - British Empire.;
Prisoners.;
Prisoners, Transportation of - Australia.;
Prisoners, Transportation of - America.;
Convict labor - Australia.;
Penal colonies, British.;
Penal colonies - British Isles.;
Convicts - Australia - History.;
Penal colonies - Ireland.;
Transportation of convicts - Australia - History.;
Penal transportation - Great Britain.;
Ex-offenders.;
Transportation of prisoners.;
Prisoners - Australia - History.;
Penal colonies - Great Britain.;
Penal transportation - Great Britain - Colonies.;
Exiles - Australia.;
Penal colonies - Australia.;
Australia - History - 1788-1853.;
Australia - History - 1788-1900.;
Australia - History - 1788-1851.;
Australia - Exiles.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-390) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0571066631 0571096530 (pbk.);
Abstract:
Preface -- References and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Crime and Transportation Before the American Revolution -- 2. The Beginning of Transportation to Australia -- 3. Early Years in New South Wales -- 4. Governor Macquarie -- 5. The Voyage --
6. Controversy in England, 1810-1830 -- 7. Who were the Convicts? - Great Britain -- 8. Who were the Convicts? - Ireland -- 9. Increasing Severity -- 10. Prisons without Bars -- 11. Deterrence and Economy, 1826-1837 -- 12. New Projects in Penology, 1837-1843 -- 13. Break-down in Van Diemen's Land -- 14. Earl Grey's Exiles -- 15. The End of Transportation -- Appendix: The Numbers Transported -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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