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" Empire of hell : "
Hilary M. Carey, University of Bristol.
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BL
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838888
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Carey, Hilary M., (Hilary Mary),1957-
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Empire of hell : : religion and the campaign to end convict transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875 /\ Hilary M. Carey, University of Bristol.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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1 online resource (xii, 359 pages)
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110733778X
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1107043085
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1108716806
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9781107043084
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9781108716802
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: 'Empire of Hell' -- Saints, whigs and penal colonies -- 'Hell upon Earth': Sir George Arthur in Van Diemen's Land -- Quakers and convict concernsChristian utilitarianism and Archbishop Richard WhatelyCatholics, Protestants and the 'horrors of transportation''Ocean Hell': Captain Maconochie and Norfolk Island -- Probation in Van Diemen's Land -- 'Political parsons' and the anti-transportation movement -- 'Floating hells': Bermuda, Gibraltar and the hulks -- 'Reformatory colony': Western Australia -- Conclusion: 'This great scheme of human redemption.'
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This revisionist history of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland will challenge much that you thought you knew about religion and penal colonies. Based on original archival sources, it examines arguments by elites in favour and against the practice of transportation and considers why they thought it could be reformed, and, later, why it should be abolished. In this, the first religious history of the anti-transportation campaign, Hilary M. Carey addresses all the colonies and denominations engaged in the debate. Without minimising the individual horror of transportation, she demonstrates the wide variety of reformist experiments conducted in the Australian penal colonies, as well as the hulks, Bermuda and Gibraltar. She showcases the idealists who fought for more humane conditions for prisoners, as well as the 'political parsons', who lobbied to bring transportation to an end. The complex arguments about convict transportation, which were engaged in by bishops, judges, priests, politicians and intellectuals, crossed continents and divided an empire.
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Criminal justice, Administration of-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Criminal justice, Administration of-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Penal transportation-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Penal transportation-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Penal transportation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Criminology.
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Great Britain.
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364.68
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HV8949.C37 2019eb
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