Includes bibliographical references (p. 656-670) and index.
Contents:
The harbor and the exiles -- A horse foaled by an acorn -- The geographical unconscious -- The starvation years -- The voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, mollies and sable brethren -- The government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward abolition -- A special scourge -- The aristocracy be we -- The end of the system.
Summary:
An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.
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