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UNINA9910954835003321 |
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Autore |
Christopher Emma <1971-> |
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A merciless place : the fate of Britain's convicts after the American Revolution / / Emma Christopher |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
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0-19-984375-9 |
1-283-37346-7 |
9786613373465 |
0-19-984376-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (453 p.) |
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Penal transportation - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Penal transportation - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Prisoners - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Prisoners - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Convict ships - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Convict ships - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Penal colonies - History - 18th century |
Penal colonies - History - 19th century |
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Influence |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-412) and index. |
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Destinations for Britain's transported convicts, c. 1770-1800 -- West Africa, c. 1780-1822 -- Bound for America -- Mr. Jefferson and Patrick Madan -- London in flames -- The "best sacrifices for death" -- Africa -- The battle for the coast -- Deserting to the enemy -- A plantation with slaves -- A mutiny and a most peculiar murder -- Trouble at Goree Island -- "Naked and diseased on the sandy shore" -- Trying America again -- The once mighty are fallen -- Lemane Island -- The end of the African disaster -- Afterword. |
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Since Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic--the saga of forgotten men and women |
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scattered to the farthest corners of the British e |
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UNINA9910155755403321 |
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Autore |
Storrie Paul D. |
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Titolo |
Made for Each Other |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (128 p.) : ill |
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Musica |
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Tom Stone stepped into Seward High and into Maria McBride's life like a bolt of lightning. He's the perfect guy for Maria--nice, smart, and well-built. There's just one problem: his family. Tom's father is the town's new funeral director, and business is booming. The bodies are piling up thick and fast in Persephone Falls, Alaska, so Dr. Stone keeps Tom up late at night working in the funeral home. And it's clear that Dr. Stone and his creepy assistant, Graves, don't want Maria around. Maria knows Tom was made for her. She's determined to find out what Dr. Stone has against her. When Tom refuses to stand up to his father, Maria begins to stitch together the clues...and finds out that the Stones are into recycling in ways she never could have imagined. |
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