02827nam 2200457 450 991045979190332120210617013434.01-921866-32-2(CKB)3710000000313189(EBL)1887461(MiAaPQ)EBC1887461(Au-PeEL)EBL1887461(CaPaEBR)ebr11199340(OCoLC)898101053(EXLCZ)99371000000031318920181228d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFreedom on the fatal shore Australia's first colony /John HirstMelbourne, Victoria :Black Inc.,2008.1 online resource (806 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86395-207-1 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 democratic4 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; IndexFreedom 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 becPenal coloniesGreat BritainElectronic books.Penal colonies365.9944Hirst J. B(John Bradley),751675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459791903321Freedom on the fatal shore1915473UNINA