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| Author | : G. Morgan |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2003-12-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230000878 |
This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in the colonies, exploring at the local level the contrasts in sentencing, shipping and settlement of convicts in America. The central myths about transportation prevalent in the eighteenth century, particularly that most felons returned, are examined in the context of the burgeoning print culture of criminal biographies and newspaper stories. In addition, the exchange of representations between the two sides of the Atlantic, and the changing American reaction to convicts, are placed within the growing transatlantic debate on transportation before the American Revolution. Above all, the realities of escape, of convicts running away and returning to England, are subject to systematic investigation for the first time.
| Author | : A. Roger Ekirch |
| Publisher | : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
During the 18th century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. This study combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders during this period in both the UK and the USA.
| Author | : Frank McLynn |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136093087 |
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
| Author | : Tim Hitchcock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2015-12-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107025273 |
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
| Author | : Emma Christopher |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2011-07 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0199782555 |
"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
| Author | : Frank McLynn |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136093168 |
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
| Author | : Sarah Tarlow |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2018-05-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3319779087 |
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
| Author | : Anthony Vaver |
| Publisher | : Pickpocket Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Most people know that England shipped thousands of convicts to Australia, but few are aware that colonial America was the original destination for Britain's unwanted criminals. In the 18th century, thousands of British convicts were separated from their families, chained together in the hold of a ship, and carried off to America, sometimes for the theft of a mere handkerchief.What happened to these convicts once they arrived in America? Did they prosper in an environment of unlimited opportunity, or were they ostracized by the other colonists? Anthony Vaver tells the stories of the petty thieves and professional criminals who were punished by being sent across the ocean to work on plantations. In bringing to life this forgotten chapter in American history, he challenges the way we think about immigration to early America.The book also includes a helpful appendix with tips on researching individual convicts transported to America.
| Author | : J. M. Beattie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198208677 |
This study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the City of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called 'age of reform'. The policing institutions of the City were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. At the same time, the City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment - particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labour - that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment. The book investigates why in the century after 1660 the elements of an alternative means of dealing with crime in urban society were emerging in policing, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.
| Author | : Simon Ville |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 710 |
| Release | : 2014-10-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1316194485 |
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.
