Bonds of Empire: The Politics of Penal Colonies in the Founding of America and Australia

by Scott Craig

This monograph is a transnational study of convict transportation, a method of exile typically accompanied by forced servitude that existed in Britain's early modern empire. It explores the advent of a penal-settlement imperial ideology which was intended to solve both the domestic problem of petty crime, while simultaneously allowing the English (and later British) government to establish a foothold in places to which free settlers would not immigrate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J578FR5
• ISBN13: 9798686600171
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"