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Landscapes of Redemption: Tracing the Path of a Convict Miner in Western Australia

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This paper presents alternative readings of the archaeology of a series of nineteenth-century industrial and convict sites in the midwest region of Western Australia. In particular it employs the biography of Joseph Horrocks a former convict turned mine manager, to reinterpret the relationship between these places, considering the agency of the individual and suggesting how his experiences at some sites may have influenced him to attempt to create an idealised industrial settlement aimed at assisting with the reform of convicts.

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Gibbs, M. Landscapes of Redemption: Tracing the Path of a Convict Miner in Western Australia. Int J Histor Archaeol 14, 593–613 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-010-0121-y

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