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Convicts - A Global History (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Convicts - A Global History (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of
empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not
connected solely to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries,
but to histories of governance, occupation, and global connections
across the world. Exploring punitive mobility to islands, colonies,
and remote inland and border regions over a period of five
centuries, she proposes a close and enduring connection between
punishment, governance, repression, and nation and empire building,
and reveals how states, imperial powers, and trading companies used
convicts to satisfy various geo-political and social ambitions.
Punitive mobility became intertwined with other forms of labour
bondage, including enslavement, with convicts a key source of
unfree labour that could be used to occupy territories. Far from
passive subjects, however, convicts manifested their agency in
various forms, including the extension of political ideology and
cultural transfer, and vital contributions to contemporary
knowledge production.
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