Kristyn Harman

Feb 2, 2018

Cleansing the Colony

Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemens Land

Otago University Press 2017

purchase at bookshop.org In her new book, Cleansing the Colony: Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land (Otago University Press, 2017), Kristyn Harman, a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Tasmania, explores the little-known story of 110 convicts transported from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in the 1840s. Harman argues that the story of these cross-Tasman convict laborers sheds light on the efforts of colonial New Zealand to "cleanse" itself from its burgeoning criminal underclass during a time of political change.

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