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Autore |
Hirst John (John Bradley), <1942-2016, > |
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Freedom on the fatal shore : Australia's first colony / / John Hirst |
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Melbourne, Victoria : , : Black Inc., , 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (806 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Penal colonies - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Convict Society and its Enemies; Preface; 1 The enemies; 2 Masters and servants; Making Convicts Servants; Flogging and Work; Good Masters and Bad; 3 Convicts and society; The Economy and Penal Principles; The Law and Convicts' Rights; Rebellion and Security; Status and Politics; Dependence and Self Criticism; 4 The shame of Botany Bay; The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy; Preface; Introduction: democracy and its dangers; I A British Democracy; 1 Tricking the British; 2 Betrayed by the British; 3 Making Britain democratic |
4 Desperately loyalII Democracy and Society; 5 Landlords and tenants; 6 The effects of gold; 7 Marks of distinction; 8 Bushmen and bushrangers; III Fruits of Democracy; 9 Attacking the rich; 10 Excluding the Chinese; 11 Disgust; IV Democracy and Authority; 12 The governing of diggers; 13 Police and bushrangers; 14 Local authority; Epilogue: the unwanted; Sources; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author.Convicts with their ""own time"", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: ""This was not a society that had to bec |
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