Island chains : carceral islands and the colonisation of Australia, 1824-1903

This thesis is about the transportation of European, Indigenous and non-white immigrant convicts to islands off the coast of Australia. It argues that carceral islands were defined not by isolation but by connection. They were part of local, colonial and imperial networks through which people, goods...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roscoe, Katherine Ann
Other Authors: Anderson, Clare ; Foxhall, Katherine
Published: University of Leicester 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.733772