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Title Representing convicts : new perspectives on convict forced labour migration / edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley
Published London ; Washington : Leicester University Press, 1997

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Description xii, 244 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm
Series New historical perspectives on migration
New historical perspectives on migration.
Contents Introduction: representing convicts? / Ian Duffield and James Bradley -- 1. Problematic passages: 'Jack Bushman's' convict narrative / Ian Duffield -- 2. Virtual reality / Toni Johnson Woods -- 3. Margaret Catchpole's first ride? / Tina Picton Phillipps -- 4. From Keneally to Wertenbaker: sanitizing the system / Ruth Brown -- 5. Representing convict women / Deborah Oxley -- 6. 'Contumacious, ungovernable and incorrigible': convict women and workplace resistance, Van Diemen's Land, 1820-1839 / Kirsty Reid -- 7. A zone of silence: Queensland's convicts and the historiography of Moreton Bay / Tamsin O'Connor -- 8. Convict Workers, 'penal labour' and Sarah Island: life at Macquarie Harbour, 1822-1834 / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart -- 9. The genealogy of the modern subject: Indian convicts in Mauritius, 1814-1853 / Clare Anderson -- 10. Embodied explorations: investigating convict tattoos and the transportation system / James Bradley and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
11. 'What punishment will be sufficient for these rebellious hussies?' Headshaving and convict women in the female factories, 1820s-1840s / Joy Damousi
Notes Proceedings of a conference held in Edinburgh, 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Convict labor -- Australia -- History -- Congresses.
Convict labor -- Australia -- History.
Convict ships -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
Convict ships -- Great Britain -- History.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History -- Congresses.
Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History.
Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- Histovy
Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
Prisoners -- Transportation -- Australia -- History.
Author Bradley, James, 1963-
Duffield, Ian.
LC no. 96024610
ISBN 071850075X