Convicts

A Global History

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvClare Anderson,Clare (University of Leicester) Anderson

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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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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-13
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt654 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor494
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108814942

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1. Introduction: a British expedition to the Brazilian penal colony of Fernando de Noronha in 1887. Part I: 2. Empires and colonies; 3. Nations, borders, and islands; 4. Enslavement, banishment, and penal transportation; 5. Imperial governance; 6. Insurgency, politics, and religion; Part II: 7. Punishment and penal systems; 8. Encounters, exploration, and knowledge; 9. Medicine, criminality, and race; 10. The human sciences; 11. Escape and extradition; 12. Conclusion; Index.

'This book is a truly global history of convicts that foregrounds the subaltern subjects who made the modern world. From contributing to scientific knowledge clearing land, building infrastructure, and expanding the territorial ambitions of faraway empires, this book shows how unfree labourers became a prominent feature of a modern global regime after the abolition of slavery. Rigorously researched and intellectually capacious, the book is a must-read for global historians.' Durba Ghosh, author of Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947

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