Bone and beauty : the Ribbon Boys' rebellion /
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St Lucia, Queensland :
University of Queensland Press,
2020.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 262 pages : maps, portrait ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 9780702260414 070226041X 9780702262135 0702262137 9780702262142 0702262145 9780702262159 0702262153 |