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

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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"

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History Language Arts

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