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Convicts: A Global History

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ISBN 13:: 9781108814942
author:: Clare
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Cambridge University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2022
Pages:: 400
Dimensions:: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 centimetres (0
Genre:: History, World History, Nonfiction,
Condition:: New
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Convicts: A Global History by Clare Anderson explores the interconnected history of punishment and governance across five centuries. This new perspective reveals how convicts were used as a key source of unfree labour to occupy territories, often in conjunction with other forms of labour bondage such as enslavement. Anderson shows how punitive mobility - the movement of convicts to remote islands, colonies, and border regions - was closely tied to geo-political ambitions and nation-building. However, convicts also manifested their agency through various means, including the extension of political ideology and cultural transfer. By examining this complex history, Anderson sheds new light on the role of punishment in shaping global connections and governance structures.

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