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Title: Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1875
Contributor(s): Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2018
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.5040/9781350000704.ch-007
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/33332
Related DOI: 10.5040/9781350000704
Abstract: Despite recent research which has revealed the extent to which penal transportation was employed as a labour mobilization device across the Western empires, the British remain the colonial power most associated with the practice.[1] The role that convict transportation played in the British colonization of Australia is particularly well known. It should come as little surprise that the UNESCO World Heritage listing of places associated with the history of penal transportation is entirely restricted to Australian sites.[2] The manner in which convict labour was utilized in the development of English (later British) overseas colonial concerns for the 170 years that proceeded the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales in 1787 is comparatively neglected. There have been even fewer attempts to explain the rise and fall of transportation as a British institution from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Grant Details: ARC/DP170103642
Source of Publication: A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies, p. 183-210
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781350000698
9781350000681
9781350000674
9781350149946
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430302 Australian history
430313 History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
430311 Historical studies of crime
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Editor: Editor(s): Clare Anderson
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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