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Mutiny at Deloraine: Ganging and Convict Resistance in 1840s Van Diemen's Land
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Dunning, TP and Maxwell-Stewart, HJ, Mutiny at Deloraine: Ganging and Convict Resistance in 1840s Van Diemen's Land, Labour History, May 2002, (82) pp. 35-47. ISSN 0023-6942 (2002) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
An incident of alleged animal maiming occurred in October 1845. In this article we attempt firstly to explain why and how it happened. Secondly, we try to discover the conflicting meanings that various contemporaries gave to this occurrence. We believe that the explanation of the event lies in the nature of ganged labour employed at Deloraine and the complex relationships that existed in 1845 between this ganged labour and the convict administration. Equally important to this complex social interaction are the various meanings given to this episode. The most available representations are of those of middle-class moralists. More difficult to reveal is the oppositional significance attributed to this event by the convicts themselves as they attempted to resist both the practices of the convict administration and the moral justifications for these practices.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical Studies |
Research Field: | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
UTAS Author: | Dunning, TP (Dr Tom Dunning) |
UTAS Author: | Maxwell-Stewart, HJ (Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart) |
ID Code: | 24228 |
Year Published: | 2002 |
Deposited By: | History and Classics |
Deposited On: | 2002-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2011-08-02 |
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