Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman

Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780522877533
Author: Janet McCalman
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Faint mark on tail foredge.

From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria.

It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than half of all those transported to Van Diemen's Land as convicts would one day settle or spend time in Victoria.

There they were demonised as Vandemonians. Some could never go straight; a few were the luckiest of gold diggers; a handful founded families with distinguished descendants.

Most slipped into obscurity. Burdened by their pasts and their shame, their lives as free men and women, even within their own families, were forever shrouded in secrets and lies.

Only now are we discovering their stories and Victoria's place in the nation's convict history. As Janet McCalman examines this transported population of men, women and children from the cradle to the grave, we can see them not just as prisoners but as children, young people, workers, mothers, fathers and colonists.

From the author of Struggletown and Journeyings, this rich study of the lives of unwilling colonisers is an original and confronting new history of our convict past-the repressed history of colonial Victoria. (book flap)

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