Author: KERCHER, Bruce.
Title: Debt, Seduction and Other Disasters: The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales.
Description: The Federation Press, 1996. Paperback. Good condition. "Based on a detailed study of Australia's earliest civil court records - a million handwritten words about daily life and trade - Debt, Seduction and Other Disasters covers the turbulent years in the penal colony. This was a period when starvation was barely averted, emancipated convicts contended with one another to become wealthy through trade, and Aborigines fought for their land. Soldiers and governors struggled for power, culminating in the overthrow of Governor Bligh, the only military coup on Australian soul." 238pp. ISBN 1862872007. ISBN-13: 9781862872004.

Keywords: history historical century social 19th nineteenth australia colonial new south wales penal law legal power politics justice police convict