Convict Workers
Subtitle: Reinterpreting Australia's Past (Studies in Australian History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521035989
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: c 1750 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; Australia; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; Convict labor--Australia--History--19th centu; Convict labor--Australia--History--19th century; History / Australia & Oceania; Australia & New Zealand - General
First sentence: During the first quarter of a century of white settlement in Australia, the economy and society was the creation of convict workers transported from Britain and Ireland.