{"title":"Catharine Coleborne","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatharine Coleborne’s works delve into the social histories of colonial Australasia, exploring themes of displacement, identity, and the lived experiences of marginalised populations. Her writing provides thoughtful analysis within the realms of education and historical reference, inviting readers to reconsider the complexities of colonial life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough carefully researched narratives like \u003cem\u003eVagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia\u003c\/em\u003e, Coleborne offers insightful perspectives that blend scholarly rigour with accessibility, making her books essential reading for those interested in the intersections of history, society, and education.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vagrant-lives-in-colonial-australasia-by-catharine-coleborne-9781350252721","title":"Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Annual Prize in Legal History 2025 (Best Monograph)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInvestigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire.\u003c\/strong\u003e Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStudying the language of vagrancy prosecution, narratives of mobility and welfare, vagrant families, gender and mobility, and the political, social and cultural interpretations of vagrancy, this book sets out a conceptual framework of mobility as a field of inquiry for legal and historical studies. Defining ‘mobility’ as population movement and the occupation of new social and physical space, it offers an entry point to the related histories of penal colonies and new ‘settler’ societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt provides insights into shared histories of vagrancy across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand, and explores how different jurisdictions regulated mobility within the temporal and geographical space of the British Pacific Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461761057004,"sku":"9781350252721","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350252721-vagrant-lives-in-colonial-australasia.jpg?v=1774976484"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/catharine-coleborne.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}