Fatal Shore a History of - Transportation of Convict

Informationen zum Autor Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New , and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art . He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical , a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona , and Culture of Complaint , essays on the fraying of America. Robert Hughes died in August 2012. Klappentext Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New , and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art , both written before the present work. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical , "criticism at its most intelligent and impressive, trenchant, lucid, elegantly written" in the words of William Boyd; a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona , and Culture of Complaint , essays on the fraying of America, described in the Observer as " the most bracing of critical broadsides against new anti-intellectual tyrannies". Robert Hughes died in August 2012. Zusammenfassung An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Hughes, Hughes R
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2003
• EAN: 9780099448549
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944854-9
• No. of pages: 720
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Australia, British Empire, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Travel writing, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Colonialism and imperialism, Slavery & abolition of slavery, 1714–1837 (Georgian period), Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Slavery and abolition of slavery