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  • Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775

    Bound for America by Ekirch, A. Roger;

    The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775

    Series: Clarendon Paperbacks;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Clarendon Press
    • Date of Publication 2 August 1990

    • ISBN 9780198202110
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 216x140x17 mm
    • Weight 376 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 4 pp plates, tables
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    Short description:

    From 1718 to 1775 British courts transported 50,000 convicts to America. This account of their transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic.

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    During the eighteenth century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. The first comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, Bound for America combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic.

    `Roger Ekirch's substantial study is the more welcome, for it explains and connects many areas of eighteenth-century history on both sides of the Atlantic ... impressively thorough, widely researched and clearly presented ... the book will be a rich source of new ideas and new associations for all who take an interest in the eighteenth century.'
    Times Literary Supplement

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