Vagrant lives in colonial Australasia : regulating mobility,1840-1910 /

Vagrant lives in colonial Australasia : regulating mobility,1840-1910 / Catharine Coleborne.

"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, i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Coleborne, Catharine (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Series:Empire's other histories.
Subjects:
Vagrancy > Australia > History.
Vagrancy > New Zealand > History.
Vagrancy.
Australia.
New Zealand.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Approaching the colonial histories of vagrancy: an introduction
  • Vagrancy laws in the colonial world
  • The policing and prosecution of vagrants
  • The everyday lives of vagrants
  • Worlds of vulnerability
  • Adventure, wandering, or predation? Regulating mobility
  • Epilogue: the precarious present.

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