A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts After the American Revolution
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Since Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic--the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the British empire, driven by the winds of the American Revolution and the currents of the African slave trade. In A Merciless Place, Emma Christopher brilliantly captures this previously unknown story of poverty,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199782555
ISBN13:9780199782550
Release Date:July 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:440 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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