A Place of Exile: The European Settlement of New South Wales

by David Mackay

In recent years, historians have argued that commercial or strategic reasons lay behind the European settlement of New South Wales. This revisionist work reexamines the founding of Botany Bay and reaches quite a different conclusion: that severe penal pressures in Britain were the real impetus for the decision. Drawing on the latest research on crime and punishment in Britain, Mackay uncovers the financial, political, and logistical problems plaguing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195546326
• ISBN13: 9780195546323
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"