Convicts And Colonial Society 1788-1853
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Few chapters in human history are as raw and formative as the story of Australia's convict era — a period stretching from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the twilight of transportation in 1853, during which a penal colony was forged, against all odds, into the foundations of a modern nation. Convicts and Colonial Society 1788-1853, edited with an introduction by Lloyd Evans and Paul Nicholls of Melbourne State College, presents a carefully curated anthology of primary and secondary sources that chronicles the lived realities of convicts, free settlers, colonial administrators, and the social hierarchies that emerged between them. Drawing on a rich variety of documents — official reports, personal testimonies, and scholarly analyses — it illuminates not only the mechanics of the transportation system but the profound human drama at its heart. Part of the Problems in Australian History series, this volume argues that the convict experience was not a mere footnote to national development but its very cornerstone, shaping Australia's social fabric, labour systems, legal institutions, and collective identity in ways that persisted long after the last convict ship arrived. Evans and Nicholls bring scholarly rigour and editorial clarity to material that is by turns shocking, poignant, and revelatory, inviting the reader to reassess inherited myths of the colonial past. For students, historians, and curious readers alike, it raises an enduring and unsettling question: how much of a nation's character is determined by the circumstances of its birth?
Author: Lloyd Evans And Paul Nicholls
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Cassell Australia
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few chapters in human history are as raw and formative as the story of Australia's convict era — a period stretching from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the twilight of transportation in 1853, during which a penal colony was forged, against all odds, into the foundations of a modern nation. Convicts and Colonial Society 1788-1853, edited with an introduction by Lloyd Evans and Paul Nicholls of Melbourne State College, presents a carefully curated anthology of primary and secondary sources that chronicles the lived realities of convicts, free settlers, colonial administrators, and the social hierarchies that emerged between them. Drawing on a rich variety of documents — official reports, personal testimonies, and scholarly analyses — it illuminates not only the mechanics of the transportation system but the profound human drama at its heart. Part of the Problems in Australian History series, this volume argues that the convict experience was not a mere footnote to national development but its very cornerstone, shaping Australia's social fabric, labour systems, legal institutions, and collective identity in ways that persisted long after the last convict ship arrived. Evans and Nicholls bring scholarly rigour and editorial clarity to material that is by turns shocking, poignant, and revelatory, inviting the reader to reassess inherited myths of the colonial past. For students, historians, and curious readers alike, it raises an enduring and unsettling question: how much of a nation's character is determined by the circumstances of its birth?