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Islands of incarceration
John Pearn

Islands of incarceration

convict and quarantine islands of the Australian coast

Amphion Press for Australian Society of the Histor (1995)
9780867765991
| Unknown Binding
122 pages | eng English
Value: $ 25.00
Dewey 362.10994
LC Classification HV8962.A8 .I75 1995

Genre

  • Tasmania History

Subject

  • Convicts - Medical Care
  • Medical Care - History
  • Medicine - History
  • Medicine, Military - History
  • Medicine, Naval - History
  • Penal Colonies - Health Aspects
  • Prisons - History

Plot

Copiously illustrated history of seven islands, Sarah, Norfolk, Rottnest, Melville, Stradbroke, Cockatoo and Peel which were used as penal settlements or quarantine stations. Discusses topics such as the conditions endured by the convicts and those in charge of them. Includes references and an index. The authors are historians with a special interest in the origins of contemporary Australian health care.

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Value

Value $ 25.00