Bone and beauty : the ribbon boys' rebellion / Jeanette M. Thompson.
2020
HS125 .T466 2020
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Title
Bone and beauty : the ribbon boys' rebellion / Jeanette M. Thompson.
ISBN
9780702260414
9780702262135 (e-book)
9780702262135 (e-book)
Published
St Lucia, Queensland : UQP, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (273 pages)
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HS125 .T466 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
366
Summary
A new perspective on a dramatic moment in Australian colonial history. October 1830 Rebelling from years of maltreatment and starvation, a band of Ribbon Boys liberate eighty convicts from Bathurst farms and lead them inland towards freedom. Governor Darling, fearing that others would also rise up, sends the 39th Regiment in pursuit. Three bloody battles follow, but to whom will justice be served? Rich with detail, Bone and Beauty fuses archival evidence and narrative technique to tell the gripping story of the Ribbon Boys and their reputed leader Ralph Entwistle. For the first time, the influence of Irish secret societies, the scale of oppression and corruption, and the complex web of criminal and family relationships behind these events are revealed.
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