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Convict transportation is a book category focused on the forced removal of prisoners to distant colonies and penal settlements, typically from the 17th to early 20th centuries. Works in this category explore the legal, political, and economic systems that enabled transportation; the sea voyages, prison hulks, and administrative machinery that moved convicts; and the lived experiences of the transported—crime, punishment, labor, resistance, and survival. Titles often cover Britain’s shipments to North America and Australia, France’s penal colonies, Russia’s exiles to Siberia, and comparable practices elsewhere, examining their impacts on both sending and receiving societies, including Indigenous communities. The category includes scholarly histories, archival studies, biographies, memoirs, and genealogical resources, as well as historical fiction and maritime narratives set in penal contexts. Themes commonly include empire and colonization, class and gender, law and reform, frontier life, and the legacies of transportation in culture and identity.

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