Convicts: A Global History
Book • 2022
This book provides the first global overview of convict transportation and penal colonies, spanning more than five centuries.
It proposes that these institutions were key to satisfying interlocking but sometimes incompatible desires for punishment, labor extraction, population management, and imperial expansion.
The volume includes contributions from various historians and covers a wide range of contexts, including Britain, France, Russia, India, and other regions.
It highlights the global expansiveness and multi-directionality of convict transportation flows and the significant legacies these systems have left in the modern world.
It proposes that these institutions were key to satisfying interlocking but sometimes incompatible desires for punishment, labor extraction, population management, and imperial expansion.
The volume includes contributions from various historians and covers a wide range of contexts, including Britain, France, Russia, India, and other regions.
It highlights the global expansiveness and multi-directionality of convict transportation flows and the significant legacies these systems have left in the modern world.
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