Convicts And The Colonies: A Study Of Penal Transportation From Great Britain And Ireland To Australia And Other Parts Of The British Empire
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Few chapters in the history of the British Empire are as stark and consequential as the mass forced migration of its unwanted citizens to the far shores of Australia — and Convicts and the Colonies stands as the definitive scholarly account of this extraordinary episode. A. G. L. Shaw, Professor of History at Monash University, presents a meticulous and authoritative study of penal transportation, tracing the systematic removal of convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other corners of the Empire from the late eighteenth century through to the eventual abolition of the practice. With rigorous archival research, Shaw chronicles the social, legal, and political machinery that drove one of history's most ambitious — and brutal — exercises in state-sanctioned exile. Beyond the logistics of transportation, Convicts and the Colonies illuminates the profound human consequences of a policy born from overcrowded prisons, moral panic, and imperial ambition. Shaw's prose is measured and scholarly, yet never loses sight of the individual lives swept up in the system, drawing sharp connections between convict labour and the economic foundations of colonial Australia. This work remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how a continent was shaped by chains, and why the legacy of transportation continues to resonate in the cultural memory of a nation.
Author: A. G. L. Shaw
Format: Paperback
Published: 1977, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few chapters in the history of the British Empire are as stark and consequential as the mass forced migration of its unwanted citizens to the far shores of Australia — and Convicts and the Colonies stands as the definitive scholarly account of this extraordinary episode. A. G. L. Shaw, Professor of History at Monash University, presents a meticulous and authoritative study of penal transportation, tracing the systematic removal of convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other corners of the Empire from the late eighteenth century through to the eventual abolition of the practice. With rigorous archival research, Shaw chronicles the social, legal, and political machinery that drove one of history's most ambitious — and brutal — exercises in state-sanctioned exile. Beyond the logistics of transportation, Convicts and the Colonies illuminates the profound human consequences of a policy born from overcrowded prisons, moral panic, and imperial ambition. Shaw's prose is measured and scholarly, yet never loses sight of the individual lives swept up in the system, drawing sharp connections between convict labour and the economic foundations of colonial Australia. This work remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how a continent was shaped by chains, and why the legacy of transportation continues to resonate in the cultural memory of a nation.