Death or Liberty : Rebels and Radicals Transported To Australia 1788 - 1868 - Tony Moore

Death or Liberty

Rebels and Radicals Transported To Australia 1788 - 1868

By: Tony Moore

Paperback | 1 June 2010 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


$39.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $10.00 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 25 to 30 business days

This is the first narrative history that brings together the stories of the political prisoners sent as convicts to Australia from all parts of the British Empire.

Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's 'terrorists' - to the shores of Australia. Sent as convicts to the other side of the world, these political prisoners included liberals, democrats and republicans; machine breakers, food rioters, trade unionists and Chartists; radical journalists and intellectuals; Irish revolutionaries, Scottish Jacobins, and Canadian and even American insurgents. Criminals and traitors in the eyes of the law, many of these transported political prisoners were heroes and martyrs to their own communities, and are still revered in their homelands as freedom fighters and patriots, progressive thinkers and crusading reformers. Yet in Australia, memory of these rebels and their causes has dimmed.

In Death or Liberty historian Tony Moore brings new life to their stories and restores them to their rightful place in Australian and world history.

About the Author

Dr Tony Moore is a writer, historian and academic based in Melbourne. He has a PhD in Australian history from the University of Sydney and is a senior lecturer at and Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. Tony's career has spanned political activism, documentary making at the ABC, journalism and book publishing. He was commissioning editor of the 'Australian Encounters' book series for Cambridge University Press and has authored two books: The Barry McKenzie Movies, (2005) and Dancing with Empty Pockets (2012).
Industry Reviews
'This important and dramatic era of Australian, Irish and British Empire history has been too often only partially told. Now we have the whole vivid tale, told by an excellent historian and engrossing narrator. Here we become fascinated by the lives of patriots and prisoners, and prisoners, and of those who try to contain and punish them-all in terms which light up the past and have an unexpected relevance to the present.' - Thomas Keneally

'In Death or Liberty Tony Moore has uncovered Australia's forgotten history as an instrument of state terror used against political radicals. Told with passionate verve, this is a tale full of dramatic incident, tragic loss, hair-breadth escapes, and the triumph of new ideas. Moore has returned Australia to its rightful place in the global battle over what it means to be free.' - Associate Professor Kirsten McKenzie, University of Sydney

'"Death or Liberty!" was the call to arms of many of the agitators and rebels whom Britain banished to Australia. Tony Moore has woven their stories together as one-an eloquent and committed narrative.' - Dr Peter Cochrane, author of Colonial Ambition

More in Australasian & Pacific History

The Catalpa Rescue - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $36.99

$33.25

10%
OFF
Unmasking the Killer of the Missing Beaumont Children - Stuart Mullins
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture - Bruce Pascoe
Girt : The Unauthorised History of Australia - David Hunt

RRP $36.99

$33.25

10%
OFF
A Concise History of Australia : 5th Edition - Stuart  Macintyre

RRP $41.95

$36.50

13%
OFF
Black Convicts : How slavery shaped Australia - Santilla Chingaipe

RRP $34.99

$31.50

10%
OFF
Killing for Country - David Marr

RRP $39.99

$35.35

12%
OFF
Australian Deserts : Ecology and Landscapes - Steve Morton

RRP $59.99

$39.25

35%
OFF
65,000 Years : A Short History of Australian Art - Marcia Langton

RRP $79.99

$53.35

33%
OFF
The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes

RRP $24.99

$23.75

Kokoda : Updated Edition - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $39.99

$32.75

18%
OFF
CAPE YORK THE SAVAGE FRONTIER - RODNEY LIDDELL
True Girt : Unauthorised History of Australia : Volume 2 - David Hunt
Australia Remember When - Bob Byrne

RRP $34.99

$33.25