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Book SynopsisThe ten contributions to this volume provide a new perspective on the history of convicts and penal colonies. They demonstrate that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were a critical period in the reconfiguration of empires, imperial governmentality and punishment, including through extensive punitive relocation and associated extractive labour. Ranging across the global contexts of Africa, Asia, Australasia, Japan, the Americas, the Pacific, Russia, and Europe, and exploring issues of criminalisation, political repression, and convict management alongside those of race, gender, space and circulation, this collection offers a perspective from the colonies that radically transforms accepted narratives of the history of empire and the history of punishment.
Table of Contents1. Transportation, deportation and exile: perspectives from the colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Clare Anderson, Christian G. De Vito and Ulbe Bosma; 2. The Andaman Islands penal colony: race, class, criminality and the British Empire Clare Anderson; 3. A natural hulk: Australia's carceral islands in the colonial period, 1788–1901 Katherine Roscoe; 4. The carceral colony: colonial exploitation, coercion and control in the Netherlands East-Indies, 1810s–1840s Matthias van Rossum; 5. Ethnoscapes of exile: political prisoners from Indochina in a Colonial Asian world Lorraine M. Paterson; 6. The transformation from Hokkaido from a penal colony to a homeland territory Minako Sakata; 7. Exile as imperial practice: Western Siberia and the Russian Empire, 1879–1900 Zhanna Popova; 8. The Depósito de Degredados in Luanda, Angola: binding and building the Portugese Empire with convict labor, 1880s to 1932 Timothy J. Coates; 9. Punitive enganglements: Conected histories of penal transportation, deportation, and incarceration in the Spanish Empire (1830s–1898) Christian G. De Vito; 10. Fearing the flood: transportation as counterinsurgency in the US-occupied Philippines Benjamin D. Weber 11. The 'other' at home: deportation and transportation of Libyans to Italy during the colonial era (1911–1943) Francesca Di Pasquale.
