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The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes.

Title
The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes.
Author
Hughes, Robert, 1938-
Publication
London : Collins Harvill, 1987, c1986.

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Description
xvi, 688 p., [42] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
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.
Subject
  • 1788-1900
  • Penal colonies > Australia > History
  • Exiles > Australia > History
  • Australia > History > 1788-1900
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 656-670.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. The Harbor and the exiles -- 2. A horse foaled by an acorn -- 3. The geographical unconscious -- 4. The starvation years -- 5. The voyage -- 6. Who were the convicts? -- 7. bolters and bushrangers -- 8. Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- 9. The Government stroke -- 10. Gentlement of New South Wales -- 11. To plough Van Diemen's Land -- 12. Metastasis -- 13. Norfolk Island -- 14. Toward abolition -- 15. A special scourge -- 16. The aristocracy be we -- 17. The end of the system.
ISBN
0002173611
LCCN
^^^87672252^
OCLC
  • 15252614
  • SCSB-11988925
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library