Tasmania's Convicts: How Felons Built a Free Society by Alison Alexander

Tasmania's Convicts: How Felons Built a Free Society by Alison Alexander

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781742372051
Author: Alison Alexander
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2010
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 318 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Book has minor edgewear only. Pages are sunned. Dust jacket has minor creasing.

The story of the 72,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1853, and the colony they built.

In Tasmania's Convicts, Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies.

Following the lives of dozens of convicts and their families, she uncovers stories of success, failure, and everything in between. While some suffered brutal conditions, most served their time and were freed, becoming ordinary and peaceful citizens. Yet over the decades, a terrible stigma became associated with the convicts, and they and the whole colony went to extraordinary lengths to hide it.
The majority of Tasmanians today have convict ancestry, whether they know it or not. While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history, Alison Alexander debates whether the convict's past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania. (publisher blurb)
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