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Penal Colonies

Penal Colonies is a historical penal institution characterized by the establishment of remote settlements where convicts were sent to serve their sentences under forced labor and state supervision, distinguished from other forms of punishment by their geographic isolation and function as instruments of both penal discipline and colonial expansion.

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98

Authors

58

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Convict SettlementsPenal Colony

Parents

Publications

88

Convicts and the Colonies: A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and Other Parts of the British Empire

Samuel Clyde McCulloch, A. G. L. Shaw · The American Historical Review · 1967 · 197 citations

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Migrations as Revolt: The Example of the Ivory Coast and the Upper Volta before 1945

A. I. Asiwaju · The Journal of African History · 1976 · 118 citations

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A History of Australian Schooling

History of Education Review · 2014 · 92 citations

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377 and the Unnatural Afterlife of British Colonialism in Asia

Douglas Sanders · Asian Journal of Comparative Law · 2009 · 89 citations · Full text

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The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales

Jim Phillips, David Neal · American Journal of Legal History · 1993 · 86 citations

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Authors

98

  1. CA
    Clare Anderson

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 174 citations

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  2. DR
    David Roberts

    University of New England, Australia

    3 publications · 86 citations

    3

    h-index

  3. HM
    Hamish Maxwell‐Stewart

    University of Tasmania, Australia

    3 publications · 59 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. JP
    Judith Pallot

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 33 citations

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  5. CF
    Colin Forster

    Australian National University, Australia

    2 publications · 40 citations

    2

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Institutions

58

  1. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    196 citations

  2. International Institute of Social History

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    82 citations

  3. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    68 citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    36 citations

  5. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    109 citations

  6. Federation University

    Ballarat, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    66 citations

  7. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    75 citations

  8. University of New England

    Armidale, Australia

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    137 citations

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Venues

  1. International Review of Social History

    5 publications · 110 citations

    5

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  2. Labour History

    4 publications · 168 citations

    4

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  3. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

    4 publications · 146 citations

    4

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  4. Australian Historical Studies

    3 publications · 126 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 3 publications · 225 citations

    3

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