The Australian Colonists
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Author | : Samuel Sidney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Australia |
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"Samuel Sidney developed an interest in the Australian colony after the emigration of his brother John to New South Wales. Samuel and John established the magazine Sidney's Emigrant Journal, and worked together on two books concerning Australian emigration. The present work is an excellent description of Australia's contemporary state, where Samuel Sidney is clearly influenced by both Caroline Chisholm and Alexander Harris. He argues that the Australian colonies are ideal for working class emigration. Already in the introduction it becomes clear that Sidney is very anti-Wakefield, which makes it an important document in the debate between competing proposals for emigration. Apparently Sidney was very well-informed, he had access to otherwise inaccessible primary sources, and the verbatim transcripts add considerably to the book's value. Sidney's work is a full guide, giving excessive and detailed information on one of the most interesting world-regions."--Abebooks website.
Author | : Kenneth Stanley Inglis |
Publisher | : Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
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Convicts - Emigrants - Colonists - Festivals - Bushrangers - Diggers.
Author | : John Dunmore Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Adam Wakeling |
Publisher | : Australian Scholarly Publishing |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1922454141 |
In 1788, Great Britain founded a colony in Australia to swallow up its criminals. And swallow them it did – more than 160,000 men and women were transported to the Australian colonies over eight decades. Remarkably, these colonies swiftly developed into robust and innovative democracies. The 1856 Victorian election was the first in the world where voters took a government-printed ballot paper, took it into a private voting booth to fill it out, then put it in a ballot box. And Australians have kept this democratic model ever since. A House of Commons for a Den of Thieves is the story of how the citizens of these colonies threw off the stigma of their criminal origins and asserted their rights. Not only against imperial authorities in London but also those wealthy and powerful men in the colonies themselves who distrusted the idea of mass democracy. And through their success, they created a lasting democratic tradition that their descendants have expanded and built on up until the present day.
Author | : William Jackson Barry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Lisa Craig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : 9781863978248 |
This book focuses on the founding of British colonies and their development in Australia in the 1800s. (From book cover).
Author | : John Dunmore Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : K. S. Inglis |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Steven Anderson |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030537676 |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author illuminates all aspects of the penalty, from shortcomings in execution technique, to the behaviour of the dying criminal, and the antics of the scaffold crowd. Mercy rates, execution numbers, and capital crimes are explored alongside the transition from public to private executions and the push to abolish the death penalty completely. Notions of culture and communication freely pollinate within a conceptual framework of penal change that explains the many transformations the death penalty underwent. A vast array of sources are assembled into one compelling argument that shows how the ‘lesson’ of the gallows was to be safeguarded, refined, and improved at all costs. This concise and engaging work will be a lasting resource for students, scholars, and general readers who want an in-depth understanding of a long feared punishment. Dr. Steven Anderson is a Visiting Research Fellow in the History Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia. His academic research explores the role of capital punishment in the Australian colonies by situating developments in these jurisdictions within global contexts and conceptual debates.
Author | : Tracey Banivanua Mar |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2006-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824830253 |
During the post-abolition period a trade in cheap and often cost-neutral labor flourished in the western Pacific. For more than forty years, it supplied tens of thousands of indentured laborers to the sugar industry of northeastern Australia. Violence and Colonial Dialogue tells the story of its impact on the people who were traded. From the beaches and shallows of the Pacific’s frontiers to the plantations and settlements of Queensland and beyond, a collective tale of the pioneers of today’s Australian South Sea Island community is told through an abundant and effective use of materials that characterize the colonial record, including police registers, court records, prison censuses, administrative reports, legislative debates, and oral histories. With a thematic focus on the physical violence that was central to the experience of people who were voluntarily or involuntarily recruited, the history that emerges is a powerful tale that is at once both tragic and triumphant. Violence and Colonial Dialogue also tells a more universal story of colonization. Set mostly in the British settler-colony of Queensland during the last forty years of the nineteenth century, it explores the brutality embedded in the structures of a colonial state, while attempting to recover the stories that such processes obscured.