| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Diverse patterns of banishment in Britain and Ireland -- pt. 2. Continuity and change: British North America and the Caribbean. |
| Summary |
Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor Irish, Scottish Jacobites, English criminals, Quakers, gypsies, Native Americans, the Acadian French in Canada, rebellious African slaves, or vulnerable minorities like the Jews of St. Eustatius, were among those expelled and banished to another place. This. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Forced migration -- History.
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Forced migration. |
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History. |
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Expatriation -- History.
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Expatriation. |
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Exile (Punishment) -- History.
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Exile (Punishment) |
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Penal transportation -- History.
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Penal transportation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Rushton, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morgan, Gwenda. Banishment in the Early Atlantic World : Convicts, Rebels and Slaves. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2013 9781441106544 |
| ISBN |
9781441155016 (electronic book) |
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1441155015 (electronic book) |
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9781441130112 (hardback) |
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9781441106544 (pb) |
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