Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia
Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910
Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25269-1 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25269-1 (ISBN)
A study of displaced peoples prosecuted for vagrancy in the colonies of Australia and New Zealand which investigates the transcolonial problem of mobility.
Winner of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Annual Prize in Legal History 2025 (Best Monograph)
Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world.
Studying the language of vagrancy prosecution, narratives of mobility and welfare, vagrant families, gender and mobility and the political, social and cultural interpretations of vagrancy, this book sets out a conceptual framework of mobility as a field of inquiry for legal and historical studies. Defining ‘mobility’ as population movement and the occupation of new social and physical space, it offers an entry point to the related histories of penal colonies and new ‘settler’ societies. It provides insights into shared histories of vagrancy across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand, and explores how different jurisdictions regulated mobility within the temporal and geographical space of the British Pacific Empire.
Winner of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Annual Prize in Legal History 2025 (Best Monograph)
Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world.
Studying the language of vagrancy prosecution, narratives of mobility and welfare, vagrant families, gender and mobility and the political, social and cultural interpretations of vagrancy, this book sets out a conceptual framework of mobility as a field of inquiry for legal and historical studies. Defining ‘mobility’ as population movement and the occupation of new social and physical space, it offers an entry point to the related histories of penal colonies and new ‘settler’ societies. It provides insights into shared histories of vagrancy across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand, and explores how different jurisdictions regulated mobility within the temporal and geographical space of the British Pacific Empire.
Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include historical understandings of mobility, mental illness, institutions, medicine, law and health in colonial Australia and New Zealand.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Approaching the colonial histories of vagrancy: an introduction
2. Vagrancy laws in the colonial world
3. The policing and prosecution of vagrants
4. The everyday lives of vagrants
5. Worlds of vulnerability
6. Adventure, wandering, or predation? Regulating mobility
7. Epilogue: The precarious present
Annotated guide to data and digital sources
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Empire’s Other Histories |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-25269-7 / 1350252697 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-25269-1 / 9781350252691 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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