Tasmania v. British Empire : the battle to end convict transportation / Alison Alexander
- Bib ID:
- 8665792
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Alexander, Alison, 1949 September 23-, author
- Description:
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- Hobart, Tasmania : Forty South Publishing, 2022
- x, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780645438239
- 0645438235
- Summary:
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"It was a David and Goliath story. The movement to end transportation of convicts to Tasmania was up against the might of the British Empire, supremely indifferent to the wishes of a group of colonists at the far end of the world. Governor Denison used whatever means he could find to keep the extent of anti-transportation sentiment from his British masters, and to keep a lid on events locally he resorted to fake news and character assassination of the movement's charismatic leader, John West. Denison was also the instigator of mob violence designed to intimidate the anti-transportationists. Despite the massive power imbalance, the battle to end transporation was finally won. And in the process, it set the scene for something even bigger - the coming together of the Australian colonies in a joint effort to stand tall in the world. If you think that's overstating the case, take a look at the flag for the Australasian League Tasmania, sewn by the ladies of Launceston in 1851. And as more recent events, such as the battles to save the Franklin River, to protect native forests from woodchipping, and to decriminalise homosexuality, have shown, bureacracy is not impervious to pressure from those who stand up for their beliefs."--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Part 1. The convict colony: 1. 'The end of the world'
- 2. More players : Christians and journalists
- 3. The end of assignment
- 4. Convicts and ex-convicts in Van Diemen's Land
- 5. Disaster : the probation system
- 6. Homosexuality and the transportation debate
- 7. Arguments and forebears
- Part 2. The battle: 8. A new version of probation
- 9. Transportation resumed : anti-transportationists fight back
- 10. Mary and William Bailey
- 11. Denison enrols allies
- 12. Triumph for Denison : the Great Exhibition
- 13. The Australasian League
- 14. Gold : the turning point?
- 15. The 1851 elections
- 16. The struggle drags on
- 17. 'The history of Tasmania'
- 18. The end of transportation
- 19. Epilogue : The first of many ...
- Notes:
- Includes bibilographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- West, John, 1808-1873
- Denison, William, Sir, 1804-1871
- Anti-Transportation League of Tasmania
- Australasian Anti-Transportation League
- Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Penal transportation -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
- Penal colonies -- Great Britain -- History
- Penal transportation -- Tasmania -- Public opinion
- Colonists -- Tasmania -- Attitudes
- Protest movements -- Tasmania -- History
- Tasmania -- Colonization -- History
- Australian
- Also Titled:
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- Tasmania versus British Empire
- Battle to end convict transportation
- Available From:
- 01301095
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