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Book SynopsisDr. Gwenda Morgan is Visiting Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, UK, and Peter Rushton is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. Together they have published
Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North-East England, 1718-1800 (UCL Press, 1998),
The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon (Surtees Society 2000, vol. 205, The Boydell Press), and
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (Palgrave, 2003).
Trade Review[T]his work shows the wider context and deeper roots of the phenomenon of mass convict transportations in the British Empire with which we are familiar … Some questions are perhaps not fully answerable, but this book is valuable among other reasons because it helps to raise them. -- Aaron Fogleman * Reviews in History *
This is a wide-ranging book, diverse in subject matter and chronological in approach ... [A]n intriguing read for anyone involved in the study of the Atlantic world. * Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History *
Pioneering in its consideration of such a wide range of banished peoples in so many different settings, this book offers a highly successful narrative that lays bare the connections between what happened in the three kingdoms during the Civil War and the subsequent growth of empire ... The book's conclusions raise many valuable questions for further research. * Journal of American Studies *
Morgan and Rushton are persuasive in their assertation that the
ad hoc nature of banishment meant that British authorities on either side of the ocean sentenced people to exile with very little thoughts about the consequences of such actions. * Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies *
Table of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgements General Introduction Part I – Diverse Patterns of Banishment in Britain and Ireland 1. Origins of English Judicial Banishment up to 1718 2. The Distinctive Character of Scottish Banishment 3. Religious Persecutions and Banishment – Quakers in Seventeenth-Century England and New England 4.Rebellions and Banishment: Ireland, Scotland and England, 1649-88 5. The Eighteenth-Century Jacobite Risings Part II – Continuity and Change: British North America and the Caribbean 6. Banishment and Criminal Transportation in the 18th-century Atlantic 7. The Acadians: A People Without a Voice 8. ‘Arbitrary Unjust and Illegal’: Philadelphia Quakers on the Virginia Frontier, 1777-1778 9. ‘Strangers and Prisoners in a Strange Land: St Augustine, 1780-81 10. The Transported Beggars of St Eustatius, 1781 Conclusions Index
