Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 - 1868Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg
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... organised resistance . Social and labour historians have recast many political ' criminals ' as progressive thinkers , democrats and reformers who paid the price for the advance of self - determination , universal suffrage , free speech ...
... organisations to agitate for political reform . Then in May 1794 , the habeas corpus Acts were suspended in England and Scotland . An arrested suspect could now be detained indefinitely without trial . Britain's war on France unleashed ...
... organised agitation , the delinquency and criminality of the lower classes was framed as a social problem that required governmental action . The workhouses run by parishes accepted only those who adhered to Christian moral principles ...
... organised acts of sabotage ( notably machine breaking ) , forming associations such as trade unions or rising in more widespread insurrection . Secondly , nationalist rebels , usually republicans , engaged in often violent liberation ...
... organisations. Muir made passionate speeches defending the revolution in France. In the spirit of cosmopolitan fraternity, when the British radicals looked to France they saw professional educated middle-class men like themselves ...
Contents
The Rebels of 1798 in Ireland and Australia | |
British Rebels of Field and Factory | |
Canadian Revolutionaries in Exile | |
Transported Martyrs and the Making of a Nation | |
Traces of Liberty | |
Bibliography | |
Other editions - View all
Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 - 1868 Tony Moore Limited preview - 2010 |
Death Or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 Tony Moore No preview available - 2010 |