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dc.contributor.authorMaxwell-Stewart, Hamish Johnen
dc.contributor.authorKippen, Rebeccaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T02:51:42Z-
dc.date.available2024-05-20T02:51:42Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationLives in Transition: Longitudinal Research in Historical Perspective, p. 43-70en
dc.identifier.isbn9780773596696en
dc.identifier.isbn9780773596689en
dc.identifier.isbn9780773544673en
dc.identifier.isbn9780773544666en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/59486-
dc.description.abstract<p>The passage taken by convict vessels en route to Australia was one of the longest that any unfree migrants have been subjected to – an average of four months at sea. Only French prisoners shipped to New Caledonia (1864–97) and Russian convicts sent from Odessa to Sakhalin (1879–1905) were moved greater distances.1 Despite the length of the voyage, monthly mortality on Australian-bound convict vessels was not excessive. In this chapter we put this experience into a wider context. As a number of historians have pointed out, ocean voyages in the eighteenth and nineteenth century became progressively less deadly, although there is some disagreement about the factors responsible for this change. Using the detailed records available for convict voyages, we explore the ways in which experiences on land and sea affected voyage outcomes for both male and female prisoners. Finally, the chapter will relate these findings to the wider debate on mortality decline in the age of sail.</p>en
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dc.publisherMcGill-Queen's University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofLives in Transition: Longitudinal Research in Historical Perspectiveen
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dc.titleSickness and Death on Convict Voyages to Australiaen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
local.contributor.firstnameHamish Johnen
local.contributor.firstnameRebeccaen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailhmaxwell@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.publisher.placeQuébec, Canadaen
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local.format.startpage43en
local.format.endpage70en
local.contributor.lastnameMaxwell-Stewarten
local.contributor.lastnameKippenen
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local.title.maintitleSickness and Death on Convict Voyages to Australiaen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttps://www.mqup.ca/lives-in-transition-products-9780773544666.phpen
local.search.authorMaxwell-Stewart, Hamish Johnen
local.search.authorKippen, Rebeccaen
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local.year.published2015en
local.fileurl.closedpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/b18c324b-50b5-4f8a-80a7-fd4fdcbccb64en
local.subject.for20204303 Historical studiesen
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local.date.moved2024-08-21en
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