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Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia / Kirsty Reid
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1 Nov 2008This study has several claims for attention, not least on account of its focus on Van Diemen’s Land from the time of its colonial beginnings as a place of secondary punishment from New South Wales in 1803 to the conclusion of direct transportation in 1853: the fifty years covered by the work offer a substantial analysis of the whole period of its existence as a penal colony from its inception u