Convict maids : the forced migration of women to Australia / Deborah Oxley
- Bib ID:
- 2537416
- Format:
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- Author:
- Oxley, Deborah, 1963-
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996
- xi, 339 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0521441315
- 0521446775
- Series:
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- Studies in Australian history (Cambridge University Press)
- Studies in Australian history
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 1. Elizabeth: a note on data and method
- 2. Mercury's charges: the crimes of convict women
- 3. Piso's justice: Irish and English offenders
- 4. Economic accoutrements: the skills of convict women
- 5. Ireland's distant shores: working life in Ireland
- 6. England's castaways: working life in England
- 7. Colonial requirements: coerced and free immigrants
- 8. Misconceptions
- 9. Britain's loss/Australia's gain?
- Concluding remarks.
- Notes:
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- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-329) and index.
- Subject:
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- Convict labor -- Australia -- History
- Penal colonies -- Australia -- History
- Women prisoners -- Australia -- History
- Women immigrants -- Australia -- History
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851
- Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1788-1851
- Prisoners
- Women
- Immigration
- Labour shortages
- History, 1801-1900
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