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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Daviden
local.source.editorEditor(s): Gare, Deborah and Ritter, Daviden
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-30T15:23:00Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.citationMaking Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788, p. 122-130en
dc.identifier.isbn0170132102en
dc.identifier.isbn9780170132107en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1216-
dc.description.abstractProvoked by the looming Bicentennial commemoration/celebration, and by the fiercely nationalist Hawke-Keating government, the reputation of Australia’s convicts received something of a reappraisal in the 1980s. No longer were they the criminal class of Clark’s imagining, or the oppressed whores of Summers’ feminist argument, but innocent village hampdens who had been convicted for the theft of a loaf of bread with which they hoped to feed their starving family. The image of Australians being sinned against by Britain (again) suited the Keating agenda, as well as the thousands of amateur genealogists who were beginning to research their family trees. But the idea was a not a new one. As early as the 1920s George Arnold Wood, professor of history at the University of Sydney, argued that Australia’s convicts, far from being a professional class, were rather victims of immoral social inequality and of an unjust legal system. The argument might not have persuaded the academic historians of the twentieth century, but his convict ideal retained an enduring popular appeal. David Roberts traces here the origins of Wood’s important thesis and the controversy it provoked.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherThomson Learning Australiaen
dc.relation.ispartofMaking Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788en
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleOpinion: 'More sinned against than sinning': George Arnold Wood and the noble convicten
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsAustralian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)en
local.contributor.firstnameDaviden
local.subject.for2008210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)en
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086371075en
local.subject.seo780107 Studies in human societyen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emaildrobert9@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:5529en
local.publisher.placeSouth Melbourne, Australiaen
local.identifier.totalchapters76en
local.format.startpage122en
local.format.endpage130en
local.title.subtitle'More sinned against than sinning': George Arnold Wood and the noble convicten
local.contributor.lastnameRobertsen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:drobert9en
local.profile.orcid0000-0003-0599-0528en
local.profile.roleauthoren
local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1244en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleOpinionen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41738789en
local.relation.urlhttp://higher.cengage.com.au/default.aspx?et=1&ei=60&bookID=15020en
local.search.authorRoberts, Daviden
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local.year.published2008en
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