The Carceral Colony: Studies in Western Australian History 34 edited by Jenny Gregory and Louis Marshall

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to tail right book corner.

The inspiration for this volume came from the 150th-anniversary commemoration of the end of convict transportation to Western Australia.

Contents:

1. The Carceral colony by Jenny Gregory and Louis Marshall
2. Western Australia and transportation in the British Empire 1615-1939 by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
3. The Swan River experiment: Coerced labour in Western Australia 1829-1868 by Kellie Moss
4. Layers of visibility: Convict discipline, crime and punishment, King George's Sound, Western Australia, 1826-1831 by Denise Young
5. The beginnings of transportation in Western Australia: Banishment, forced labour, and punishment at the Aboriginal Prison on Rottnest Island before 1850 by Ann Curthoys
6. Work on Wadjemup: Entanglements between Aboriginal prison labour and the imperial convict system in Western Australia by Katherine Roscoe
7. The ticketer's plight: Living standards and mortality among ticket-of-leave convicts in Western Australia, 1850-1877 by Louis Marshall
8. 'Could not even be named': Sodomites transported to Western Australia between 1851 and 1863 by Bruce Baskerville
9. 'The vilest and most degraded of human beings': An investigation into why female convicts were not transported to Western Australia by Joanne Hyland
10. 'Convicts' in the Swan District: The first public works projects in the colony of Western Australia, 1850-51 by Shane Burke
11. 'What you lookin' at?': An archaeological analysis of graffiti and inscription at Fremantle Prison by B'geella Romano