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OverviewJeremy Bentham and Australia explores Bentham's writings on Australia. The authors place the writings in their historical contexts and provide a critical assessment of all aspects related to Bentham's thoughts on the transportation of prisoners from the British Isles. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tim Causer , Margot Finn , Philip SchofieldPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.980kg ISBN: 9781787358201ISBN 10: 1787358208 Pages: 410 Publication Date: 28 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'an invaluable, indispensable, and timely companion to Bentham's collected volume' Journal of Comparative Law 'That a single volume of unpublished work can elicit such a wide range of interventions is testament to the fertility of Bentham's thought and questions around criminal transportation, incarceration, settler colonialism and their legacies that it prompts. Many of these legacies in the Australian context are potentially unsettling ones and it to the credit of editors and contributors that these have been tackled head on. Certainly, when the bicentenary of his death rolls around, Bentham scholarship will be in rude health.' Australian Book Review Jeremy Bentham and Australia brings together an impressive assembly of researchers who each offer sophisticated analyses' Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 'opens new fields for reflection on canonical texts from the history of European ideas.' Revue d'�tudes benthamiennes 'an invaluable, indispensable, and timely companion to Bentham's collected volume' Journal of Comparative Law 'That a single volume of unpublished work can elicit such a wide range of interventions is testament to the fertility of Bentham's thought and questions around criminal transportation, incarceration, settler colonialism and their legacies that it prompts. Many of these legacies in the Australian context are potentially unsettling ones and it to the credit of editors and contributors that these have been tackled head on. Certainly, when the bicentenary of his death rolls around, Bentham scholarship will be in rude health.' Australian Book Review 'That a single volume of unpublished work can elicit such a wide range of interventions is testament to the fertility of Bentham's thought and questions around criminal transportation, incarceration, settler colonialism and their legacies that it prompts. Many of these legacies in the Australian context are potentially unsettling ones and it to the credit of editors and contributors that these have been tackled head on. Certainly, when the bicentenary of his death rolls around, Bentham scholarship will be in rude health.' Australian Book Review Author InformationTim Causer is Principal Research Fellow at the Bentham Project, UCL Faculty of Laws. Margot Finn is Professor of Modern British History at UCL and, from 2016–20, was President of the Royal Historical Society. Philip Schofield is Director of the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, UCL, and General Editor of the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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