Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies

Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK. She is a member of the British Academy Area Panel for South Asia and on the Advisory Council of the Institute for Historical Research and is currently editor of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Her recent publications include Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920 (2012) and Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey (2013).

• 1. Introduction: A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies (Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK)2. The Portuguese Empire, 1100-1932 (Tim Coates, College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA)3. The Spanish Empire, 1500 to 1898 (Christian G. De Vito, University of Leicester, UK)4. The Scandinavian Empires in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Johan Heinsen, Aalborg University, Denmark)5. The French Empire, 1542-1976 (Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions, CESDIP, France)6. The Dutch East India Company in Asia, 1595-1811 (Matthias van Rossum, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands) 7. Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1875 (Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, University of Tasmania, Australia)8. British India, 1789-1939 (Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK)9. Post-colonial Latin America since 1800 (Ryan C. Edwards, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)10. Russia and the Soviet Union from the 19th to the 21st Century (Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham, UK and Judith Pallot, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK)11. Japan in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Minako Sakata, Tomakomai Komazawa University, Japan)12. Modern Europe, 1750-1950 (Mary Gibson, CUNY, USA and Ilaria Poerio, University of Reading, UK)Epilogue: In Carceral Motion: Disposals of Life and Labour (Ann Laura Stoler, New School for Social Research, New York, USA)BibliographyIndex

Anderson’s work is a welcome addition to a field which merits more investment … [It] introduces contemporary theoretical concerns, as well as the concerns of contemporary activists to historical topics.