Gould Genealogy and History

Convicts with legal rights, convicts with their 'own time', convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: 'This was not a society that has to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times'.

Contents:
Foreword

Convict Society and its Enemies
Preface
1. The Enemies
2. Masters and Servants
 - Making Convicts Servants
 - Flogging and Work
 - Good asters and Bad
3. Convicts and Society
 - The Economy and Penal Principles
 - The Law and Convicts' Rights
 - Rebellion and Security
 - Status and Politics
 - Dependence and Self-Criticism
4. The Shame of Botany Bay

The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: A British Democracy
1. Tricking the British
2. Betrayed by the British
3. Making Britain Democratic
4. Desperately Loyal
Part 2: Democracy and Society
5. Landlords and Tenants
6. The Effects of Gold
7. Marks of Distinction
8. Bushmen and Bushrangers
Part 3. Fruits of Democracy
9. Attacking the Rich
10. Excluding the Chinese
11. Disgust
Part 4. Democracy and Authority
12. The Governing of Diggers
13. Police and Bushrangers
14. Local Authority
Epilogue: The Unwanted
Sources
Notes
Index