TY - BOOK ID - 3485832 TI - Subaltern lives PY - 2012 VL - *6 SN - 9781107015098 9781107645448 9781139057554 9781139377263 1139377264 1107645441 1139057553 9781139380126 1139380125 9781139375832 1139375830 110701509X 1107230101 9781107230101 1139366130 9781139366137 1280664088 9781280664083 1139378694 9781139378697 9786613641014 6613641014 1139371843 9781139371841 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Marginality, Social KW - Exclusion, Social KW - Marginal peoples KW - Social exclusion KW - Social marginality KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Culture conflict KW - Social isolation KW - Sociology KW - People with social disabilities KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - History. KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3485832 AB - Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature and significance of 'networked' Empire. She reveals the importance of penal transportation for colonial expansion and sheds new light on convict experiences of penal settlements and colonies, as well as the relationship between convictism, punishment and colonial labour regimes. The book also explores the nature of colonial society during this period and embeds subaltern biographies into key events like the abolition of slavery, the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the Indian Revolt of 1857. This is an important new perspective on British colonialism which also opens up new possibilities for the writing of history itself. ER -