Alison Alexander

Tasmania's Convicts

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To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. 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 harsh 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 extraord… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-74176-982-1
EAN: 9781741769821
Produktnummer: 16515902
Verlag: Allen & Unwin
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 328 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'179 KB

Über den Autor

Dr Alison Alexander is a seventh-generation Australian, with convict ancestors in the first, second and third fleet. She has worked as a freelance historian and as a lecturer and tutor in history at the University of Tasmania. Alison is editor of the Companion to Tasmanian History and has written seventeen commissioned histories of Tasmanian institutions. She has also written biographies of authors Mary Grant Bruce and Marie Bjelke-Petersen, and a combined biography of governors' wives and mistresses in early Van Diemen's Land.