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Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past Hardcover - 1989

by Stephen Nicholas (Editor)


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In a radical new interpretation of Australia's past, based on exhaustive and detailed analysis of recORD this book shows that the convicts sent to Australia were not professional criminals, but ORD work skills, essential to the forging of a new economy and society. By illuminating the contribution of the convict workers to Australia's economic and social development, a fresh historical understanding of Australia's early history emerges.

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During the first quarter of a century of white settlement in Australia, the economy and society was the creation of convict workers transported from Britain and Ireland.

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  • Title Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past
  • Author Stephen Nicholas (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date August 25, 1989
  • ISBN 9780521361262 / 0521361265
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.43 x 1.02 in (21.59 x 13.79 x 2.59 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Convict labor - Australia - History - 19th, Penal colonies - Australia - History - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88011990
  • Dewey Decimal Code 365.650
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