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Convict Workers
Author: Stephen Nicholas
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1988
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.
Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen's Land
Author: Emma D. Watkins
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2020-02-06
Drawing on digital criminal records, this book traces the life courses of young convicts who were sentenced at the Old Bailey and transported to Van Diemen's Land in the early 19th century. It explores the everyday lives of the convicts pre- and post-transportation, focusing on their crimes, punishments, education, employment and family life right up to their deaths. Emma D. Watkins contextualizes these young convicts within the punishment system, economy and culture that they were thrust into by their forced movement to Australia. This allows an understanding of the factors which determined their chances of achieving a 'settled life' away from crime in the colony. Packed with case studies offering vivid accounts of the offenders' lives, Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen's Land makes an important contribution to the history of transportation, social history and Australian history.
Settler Society in the Australian Colonies
Author: Angela Woollacott
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2015
Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government.