美国冷战时期最致命的战役之一,在被俘虏前,比尔·理查森上校领导了阿拉莫式的保卫战,保卫了少数幸存者。朝鲜人把他们带到了零度以下的天气,没有食物,没有住所,没有医疗照顾,被称为死亡谷。理查森忍受着旨在打破身心的折磨,仍然坚强到足以带领战俘们抵抗、破坏和新的越狱计划。 《死亡之谷》是一个关于生存和决心的激动人心的故事,用他们自己的一句朴实无华的话,亲密地审视了美国第一次冷战战役的士兵。

This New York Times ' bestseller features the West's most prominent lawmen and criminals, who tell their stories of fight, death, and survival. In the romantic narrative of the Old West, two larger-than-life characters emerged as the perfect foils for each other—the rampant outlaw and the heroic peace officer. Without the villain, sheriffs would not have needed to uphold the law; and without the sheriff, villains would have had no law to break. Together, both personalities fought, lost, and triumphed amid shootouts, train robberies, and bank holdups against the backdrop of the lawless American frontier. This spectacular New York Times ' bestselling collection of true memoirs and autobiographies, told by the very people who lived these criminal and righteous lives during the Old West, reveal the outlaw and peace officer at their worst and best. Watch as Mark Twain introduces notorious gunslinger Jack Slade; hear about Theodore Roosevelt's encounters with men, women, and game from Roosevelt himself; read sheriff Pat Garrett's biography of Billy the Kid, the outlaw he killed; and listen as lawmen Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp describe each other in their own accounts. Including other carefully curated stories by Tom Horn, Cole Younger, and more, Outlaws and Peace Officers invokes danger, honor, and the fight for survival during this perilous but exciting chapter in American history.

Review"_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, co-founder of Mother Jones. Product DescriptionHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

**The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of __King Leopold's Ghost__** __The Tin Ticket__ takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.

The gripping nineteenth century memoir of death, despair, heroism, and a will to survive during the California Gold Rush.Hit by Gold Rush fever in 1849, a wagon train headed for the California coast stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert. The men, women, and children were swallowed up by the hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, quickly ran out of water, and one by one, buried their own who perished. They were lost beyond hope, until twenty-nine-year-old William Lewis Manly, and his companion, John Rogers, decided to cross the treacherous Panamint Mountains by themselves in search for rescue.Manly lived to tell the tale, and forty-five years later he did—in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. Manly's stirring account brings alive the...

From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In their home country of Britain, many of these fears were unfounded. The country had not suffered from economic collapse, occupation, civil war, or any of the ideological conflicts of inter-war Europe. Nevertheless, the modern era?s promise of progress was overshadowed by a looming sense of decay and death that would deeply influence creative production and public argument between the wars. In The Twilight Years , award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain?s leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization? and a way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the future.

From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFor generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.

The eleventh installment of Craig Johnson’s New York Times bestselling Longmire series—the basis for the hit drama series LONGMIRE now on Netflix When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire’s jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum—until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead, floating face down in a turtle pond. With millions of dollars at stake, a number of groups step forward to claim her, including Danny’s family, the tribe, and the federal government. As Wyoming’s Acting Deputy Attorney and a cadre of FBI officers descend on the town, Walt is determined to find out who would benefit from Danny’s death, enlisting old friends Lucian Connolly and Omar Rhoades, along with Dog and best friend Henry Standing Bear, to trawl the vast Lone Elk ranch looking for answers to a sixty-five million year old cold case that’s heating up fast. Review “Fast-paced [and] entertaining . . . Johnson, as usual, offers colorful glimpses of Wyoming history and its physical features. Johnson is able to make the landscape itself at least as fascinating as the slightly off-kilter, and sometimes murderous, folks that inhabit Walt’s universe.” —Denver Post “An especially good tale . . . If you are not familiar with Longmire, you might want to meet him. If you know him, don’t miss his latest case.” —Charleston Post & Courier “Yet another classic Craig Johnson mystery.” — Deseret News “The [Longmire] series continues to be fresh and innovative. In Dry Bones , Johnson accomplishes this through a ‘sixty-five-million-year-old cold case’ with current social and political implications, as well as via vibrantly complex characters. Devoted series fans won't feel a sense of déjà vu in Dry Bones , but they will easily identify Johnson's tendency toward innovative imagery (‘my brain felt like it was bouncing around like a sneaker inside a washing machine’), crack dialogue, humor and a strong sense of place. Absaroka's maker brings dem bones to life, and readers are sure to rejoice.” —Shelf Awareness “[Walt Longmire] remains tough, smart, honest, and capable of entertaining fans with another difficult, dangerous case.” —Kirkus Reviews “[Longmire] never disappoints the reader: he’s a hero through thick and thin.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for Craig Johnson and the Longmire Series “It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson’s lean and leathery mysteries.” — The New York Times Book Review “Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, and always entertaining, Wait for Signs is a complete delight.” — ShelfAwareness “Like the greatest crime novelists, Johnson is a student of human nature. Walt Longmire is strong but fallible, a man whose devil-may-care stoicism masks a heightened sensitivity to the horrors he’s witnessed.” — Los Angeles Times “Johnson's hero only gets better—both at solving cases and at hooking readers—with age.” — Publishers Weekly “Johnson’s trademarks [are] great characters, witty banter, serious sleuthing, and a love of Wyoming bigger than a stack of derelict cars.” — The Boston Globe “Johnson’s pacing is tight and his dialogue snaps.” — Entertainment Weekly “Stepping into Walt’s world is like slipping on a favorite pair of slippers, and it’s where those slippers lead that provides a thrill. Johnson pens a series that should become a ‘must’ read, so curl up, get comfortable, and enjoy the ride.” — The Denver Post About the Author Craig Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, August 2009: How do you describe a 1,300-page book in 150 words? Start with adjectives (some of them opposites): vast, intrepid, passionate, and yes, sometimes dull, illuminating and infuriating, satirical and confessional, exhausting and exhaustive, dirty, fertile, and dry. William T. Vollmann, legendary for his huge, all-consuming books of fiction, history, and reporting, has spent much of the past ten years returning obsessively to one of the harshest but most contested territories in North America, the desert borderlands of southeastern California and northern Mexico he calls Imperial. Wading through water-use arcana, agri-booster archives, and centuries of colonial history; listening to lettuce farmers, motel clerks, and dance-hall hostesses; and crossing the border hundreds of times (while meeting those who cross via other means, and those who try to stop them), Vollmann has written an intensely personal fever dream of an encyclopedia that makes a strange, northern companion to last year's giant borderlands masterpiece, Roberto Bolano's 2666 . --Tom Nissley From Publishers Weekly Signature Reviewed by Michael CoffeyThis is an exasperating, maddening, exhausting and inchorent book by the stunningly prolific Vollmann, who has really outdone himself. Eleven hundred pages plus endless endnotes about a single county in California is as perverse as Vollmann has dared be—which is saying a lot for a guy who has written a massive collection of tales about skinheads ( Rainbow Stories ), a seven-volume history of the settling of a measly continent ( Seven Dreams ) and another seven volumes on the history of violence ( Rising Up and Rising Down) . But a big book about one county? Well, it's not just any county. Imperial is the southeastern-most county in California, bordering with Mexico to the south and Arizona to the east, across the Colorado River. Is it a place deserving of this seemingly disproportionate chronicle? Today, it is a hot spot for illegal immigration, law enforcement action, drug trafficking, prostitution and sweatshop labor in maquilladoras , fetid border factories. It is a place, sure enough, where imperialism has made its mark. Over the past centuries, a lot of bad things have happened in El Centro, as the region is also called, and very little good, as Vollmann's excessive data-dump demonstrates ad nauseam. The Spanish came, murdered, plundered, left; America annexed; land grabs ensued and Colorado River water was illegally diverted westward to render a temporary agricultural paradise and make a few fortunes. As with most of his books, Vollmann has performed mind-boggling feats of research, gobbling up obscure and arcane texts about the Spanish conquests, hydrography, citrus cultivation, immigration, poverty rates, desalinization, drug use, human smuggling and exploitation of the weak by the wealthy in all its guises as it applies to this benighted, once beautiful desert region. If Vollmann has a point of view here, an axe to grind, it is that he is appalled by the power inequities and the subsequent suffering of the Mexicans, and he is moved by the latter's simple desire to have a better life. But gouts of a bleeding heart make for some viscous prose, and, as seldom happens with Vollmann, his emotions overcome his cool and his positions fray into incoherence. Vollmann's normally reliable narrative voice veers between tour guide–speak and backpacking sociologist, with the occasional lyrical paean to a lady of the night. As a result, Imperial County is a place that few will have the stomach to visit, and Imperial a book few will be willing to read. (powerHouse is publishing a book of 200 photographs Vollmann took during the course of his research: $55 [200p] ISBN 978-1-57687-489-9.) Photos, maps. (Aug.) Coffey is executive managing editor at PW . Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

<p class="null1">"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read."<br> -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of <i>In The Heart of the Sea</i></p> <p>In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home.</p> <p><i>Oil and Ice</i> is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry.</p>

A fist fight, a mysterious letter, and a dangerous pursuit come together in a thrilling Western tale. It all begins with a brutal fight between Jake Barry and Ted Wayne. Jake Barry, the instigator, demands gun play, but Ted Wayne refuses and settles the matter with his fists. The beating humiliates Jake Barry and he vows to get even, this time with guns. Ted doesn't even know why there had to be a fight at all. Ted's girl, Polly Arnold, witnesses the fight and starts to have mixed feelings about Ted. Ed Wayne, Ted's father and owner of the affluent Whippoorwill ranch, refuses to listen to his son's account of the affair. As far as Ed is concerned, this is just another in a string of scrapes his son has been in, which are damaging his son's chances of ever taking over ownership of the Whippoorwill. In an effort to see Ted redeem himself, Ed sends his son on a secret mission to the tough town of Rainbow to locate one Jim Hunter. To help Ted in this quest, his father gives him two letters of introduction, one to Miles Henseler, owner of The Three Colors, a gambling resort in Rainbow, and the other to a Mortimer G. Webb. At The Three Colors, Ted delivers his letter to Henseler, the contents of which he knows nothing about. Henseler gives Ted cryptic advice: go to bed and leave the rest to him. When a somewhat disappointed Ted reaches his hotel, a man that fits the description of Jim Hunter quickly eludes him. It is the beginning of what will prove to be a very dangerous pursuit. . . . Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L'Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

This New York Times' bestseller features the West’s most prominent lawmen and criminals, who tell their stories of fight, death, and survival. In the romantic narrative of the Old West, two larger-than-life characters emerged as the perfect foils for each other—the rampant outlaw and the heroic peace officer. Without the villain, sheriffs would not have needed to uphold the law; and without the sheriff, villains would have had no law to break. Together, both personalities fought, lost, and triumphed amid shootouts, train robberies, and bank holdups against the backdrop of the lawless American frontier. This spectacular New York Times' bestselling collection of true memoirs and autobiographies, told by the very people who lived these criminal and righteous lives during the Old West, reveal the outlaw and peace officer at their worst and best. Watch as Mark Twain introduces notorious gunslinger Jack Slade; hear about Theodore Roosevelt’s encounters with men, women, and game from Roosevelt himself; read sheriff Pat Garrett’s biography of Billy the Kid, the outlaw he killed; and listen as lawmen Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp describe each other in their own accounts. Including other carefully curated stories by Tom Horn, Cole Younger, and more, Outlaws and Peace Officers invokes danger, honor, and the fight for survival during this perilous but exciting chapter in American history.Formats : EPUB

This New York Times ' bestseller features the West's most prominent lawmen and criminals, who tell their stories of fight, death, and survival. In the romantic narrative of the Old West, two larger-than-life characters emerged as the perfect foils for each other—the rampant outlaw and the heroic peace officer. Without the villain, sheriffs would not have needed to uphold the law; and without the sheriff, villains would have had no law to break. Together, both personalities fought, lost, and triumphed amid shootouts, train robberies, and bank holdups against the backdrop of the lawless American frontier. This spectacular New York Times ' bestselling collection of true memoirs and autobiographies, told by the very people who lived these criminal and righteous lives during the Old West, reveal the outlaw and peace officer at their worst and best. Watch as Mark Twain introduces notorious gunslinger Jack Slade; hear about Theodore Roosevelt's encounters with men, women, and game from Roosevelt himself; read sheriff Pat Garrett's biography of Billy the Kid, the outlaw he killed; and listen as lawmen Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp describe each other in their own accounts. Including other carefully curated stories by Tom Horn, Cole Younger, and more, Outlaws and Peace Officers invokes danger, honor, and the fight for survival during this perilous but exciting chapter in American history.

"Richardson never pulls his punches in these vivid descriptions." -- Publishers WeeklyCaught in the Chinese counterattack at Unsan-one of the deadliest American battles of the Cold War Era-Colonel Bill Richardson led an Alamo like defense of the few survivors before being taken prisoner. The North Koreans marched them through sub-zero weather without food, shelter, or medical attention to the area known as Death Valley. Enduring torture designed to break the mind and body, Richardson remained strong enough to lead his fellow prisoners in resistance, sabotage, and new plans for escape.Valleys of Death is a stirring story of survival and determination, an intimate look at the soldiers who fought America's first battle of the cold war in the unvarnished words of one of their own.From Publishers Weekly

**"Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."-__The New York Times Book Review__**Original, entertaining, and ever-surprising,__The Twilight Years__tells the story of how an abiding fear of war influenced English life in the aftermath of World War I. Britain had become a laboratory for modern thought and experimentations, from eugenics to Freud's unconscious. And drawing upon these innovative ideas and concepts, intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H.G. Wells-grappled with a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization.__The Twilight Years__speaks to the frightening power of ideas in a rapidly changing world.

Review"_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, co-founder of Mother Jones. Product DescriptionHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

A collection of Gnostic texts spanning centuries, geographical locations, and cultural traditions—“a wonderful achievement” (Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels) Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced.The selections gathered here in poetic, readable translation represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading.

مراجعة"_The Tin Ticket_، الذي كتبته خبيرة شؤون الجنسين المتعلمة في جامعة هارفارد ديبورا ج. سويس ونشرته بيركلي، هو كتاب رائع. إنه يسلط الضوء على جزء من التاريخ الذي ظل موجودًا لفترة طويلة تم التغاضي عنها، بطريقة تجعل القارئ سريعًا في مقعده من المقدمة المثيرة إلى نهاية القصة الحالية. في أوائل القرن التاسع عشر، سعت الحكومة البريطانية إلى بناء الطبقة العاملة في مستعمرتها الأسترالية الجديدة ، أين لقد فاق عدد الرجال عدد النساء بنسبة تسعة إلى واحد، وقد فعلوا ذلك من خلال تطبيق قانون قديم يسمح بترحيل النساء المدانات بجرائم صغيرة، ووضعهن في سفن العبيد القذرة والموبوءة بالأمراض والتي كانت تحمل الناجيات إلى الجانب الآخر من العالم. تذكرة الصفيح (سميت على اسم بطاقة القصدير المربوطة حول رقاب المدانين) يتم سردها من خلال عيون النساء والأطفال الذين تم شحنهم إلى أرض فان ديمين، والتي ستتم إعادة تسميتها لاحقًا. تسمانيا، التي طالما أهملت كتب التاريخ رحلتها المروعة التي دامت أربعة أشهر ونجاتها بأعجوبة. كانت أغنيس ماكميلان واحدة من آلاف الأطفال الذين عوقبوا لارتكابهم جريمة تافهة من خلال نقلهم إلى الأراضي النائية القاسية. يستكشف الكتاب خلفية أغنيس، حيث تخلى عنها والدها وتوفيت والدتها عندما كانت أغنيس في الثانية عشرة من عمرها، ولم يكن أمامها خيار سوى اللجوء إلى الشوارع. تم دفع الطفلة الجائعة لسرقة بقايا الطعام للبقاء على قيد الحياة، مما أدى إلى القبض عليها وعلى صديقتها المقربة جانيت وإدانتهما بالمرور المروع إلى أستراليا. إن قرب علاقتهما، والفكاهة التي وجدتها معًا، وبراعتهما ساعدت الفتيات على العيش في ظل مصاعب وإذلال لا يمكن تصوره. يخبرنا المؤلف أن أحفاد الفتيات يعتقدون أن الخصائص المماثلة تميز الشخصية الأسترالية اليوم. يتتبع Swiss حياة أغنيس وجانيت ولودلو، بالإضافة إلى حياة إليزابيث فراي، الإصلاحية الرائدة في الكويكرز التي ناضلت لجعل حياة النساء المدانات أكثر احتمالاً. كسرت هؤلاء النساء قيود العبودية لتأسيس مجتمع يسبق بقية العالم بمائة عام، حيث تم تحقيق المساواة بين الرجل والمرأة. لقد هجرهم وطنهم وأهملهم التاريخ، وأصبحت هؤلاء النساء، بقوة الإرادة المطلقة، قلب وروح الأمة الجديدة. >"يتميز الأيرلنديون بأعداد غير متناسبة بين المدانين المنقولين إلى أستراليا. ارتفع عدد المدانات الأيرلندية بشكل كبير في أعقاب المجاعة الأيرلندية الكبرى، وهي الفترة التي شهدت أيضًا نقل أكثر من 4000 فتاة يتيمة أيرلندية باعتبارها "سلالة تربية" للمستعمرة الجديدة. تضفي ديبورا سويس ضوءًا جديدًا ونظرة ثاقبة على قصة السجينات اللاتي تم نقلهن إلى أستراليا، وفي سرد ​​هذه القصة من خلال حياة عدد من النساء، تعيد لنا مأساة وانتصار هؤلاء النساء الصامدات." - ميرتين أو فاينين، سفيرة أيرلندا "تكشف ديبورا سويس ببلاغة وجذابة عن قطعة مدفونة ومهمة من "تاريخها" الأسترالي، وهي نساء مُدانات عانين من الظلم والقسوة والظلم. والمشقة. والأكثر من ذلك، فإن السويسريين يسلطون الضوء بمهارة على جوهرهم في مرونتهم غير العادية وتصميمهم وشجاعتهم. مصدر إلهام للجميع." -بيروت ريجين، مؤلفة كتاب الفراشات الحديدية: النساء يغيرن أنفسهن والعالم. "_تذكرة الصفيح_ توضح بقوة الضعف واليأس الذي لا يمكن تصوره والذي جاء مع كونك فقيرًا وأنثى قبل مائتي عام في بريطانيا. لكن قصص النساء في هذا الكتاب لا تختلف كثيراً عن قصص الملايين الذين يتم الاتجار بهم عبر القارات حتى اليوم من أجل العمالة الرخيصة أو الجنس. ومثل هؤلاء النساء، تجسد الأمهات المؤسسات لأستراليا نفس المرونة الرائعة وسعة الحيلة التي تظهرها النساء لانتشال أنفسهن وأسرهن من الشدائد. تذكرة الصفيح تحكي قصتهم، وتثري تاريخنا المشترك كنساء وكبشر." -ريتو شارما، المؤسس المشارك ورئيس منظمة Women Thrive Worldwide "في كثير من الأحيان، لا تذكر كتب التاريخ قصص النساء والفقراء وأولئك الذين ابتلعهم نظام السجون. لقد كسرت ديبورا سويس هذا الحاجز الثلاثي لتقدم لنا قصة مؤثرة ورائعة - عن الأشخاص المنسيين الذين تم استغلالهم بلا رحمة، وعن امرأة رائعة فعلت الكثير لمساعدتهم. " - آدم هوتشيلد، مؤلف كتاب شبح الملك ليوبولد وBury the Chains، المؤسس المشارك لمنتج Mother Jones الوصفتروي المؤرخة ديبورا ج. سويس القصة المفجعة والمرعبة والمنتصرة في نهاية المطاف للنساء المنفيات من الجزر البريطانية وأجبرن على العبودية والوحشية - اللاتي أنشأن المجتمع الأكثر تحررًا في عصرهن أدينت أغنيس ماكميلان وجانيت هيوستن بتهمة سرقة بريدجيت موليجان لسرقة دلو من الحليب. إحدى عشرة ملعقة، بسبب جرائمهم، لن يتم إرسالهم إلى السجن، بل إلى سفن تعج بالمدانات الأخريات، حيث تم تعليق تذاكر من الصفيح، مختومة بالأرقام، حول أعناق النساء، وانطلقت السفن لنقلهن إلى منزلهن الجديد. : أرض فان ديمين، التي عُرفت فيما بعد باسم تسمانيا، وهي جزء من جوهرة تاج الإمبراطورية البريطانية، أستراليا. كان عدد الرجال يفوق عدد النساء بنسبة تسعة إلى واحد هناك، وكان عدد قليل من المواطنين "الصالحين" مهتمين بالهجرة. وقد وفر ترحيل الآلاف من المجرمين الصغار -الغالبية العظمى من المجرمين غير العنيفين- حلاً مناسبًا للحكومة. وعند عبور المياه الموبوءة بأسماك القرش، مات البعض في حطام السفن خلال الرحلة التي استغرقت أربعة أشهر، أو استسلموا للعدوى وتم إرسالهم إلى قبر مائي. وتم تشريب أخريات ضد إرادتهن من قبل خاطفيهن. لقد وصلوا على أنهم مجرد ممتلكات. لكن بشكل لا يصدق، مع مرور السنين، تمكنوا ليس فقط من تحمل الحرمان والألم ولكن أيضًا من الازدهار وفقًا لشروطهم الخاصة، وكسروا قيود العبودية، وشكلوا مجتمعًا يعامل المرأة على قدم المساواة ويقود العالم في مجال حقوق المرأة. تذكرة الصفيح تأخذنا إلى فجر القرن التاسع عشر وإلى حياة أغنيس ماكميلان، التي حملها تحديها ومرونتها إلى تمرد أكثر دراماتيكية بكثير؛ أفضل صديقة أغنيس جانيت هيوستن، التي أنقذتها من عواصف جلاسكو وتم نقلها أيضًا إلى أرض فان ديمين؛ لودلو تيدر، أُجبرت على اختيار واحد فقط من أطفالها الأربعة لمرافقتها إلى الجانب الآخر من العالم؛ بريدجيت موليجان، التي أنجبت سلسلة من النساء الأقوياء تمتد حتى يومنا هذا. ويحكي الفيلم أيضًا قصة إليزابيث جورني فراي، وهي إصلاحية من جماعة الكويكرز أثرت في حياتهم كلها. في نهاية المطاف، إنها قصة النساء اللاتي نبذهن وطنهن ونسيهن التاريخ - اللاتي أصبحن، بقوة الإرادة المطلقة، قلب وروح أمة جديدة.

Review"_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, co-founder of Mother Jones. Product DescriptionHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

مراجعة"_The Tin Ticket_، الذي كتبته خبيرة شؤون الجنسين المتعلمة في جامعة هارفارد ديبورا ج. سويس ونشرته بيركلي، هو كتاب رائع. إنه يسلط الضوء على جزء من التاريخ الذي ظل موجودًا لفترة طويلة تم التغاضي عنها، بطريقة تجعل القارئ سريعًا في مقعده من المقدمة المثيرة إلى نهاية القصة الحالية. في أوائل القرن التاسع عشر، سعت الحكومة البريطانية إلى بناء الطبقة العاملة في مستعمرتها الأسترالية الجديدة ، أين لقد فاق عدد الرجال عدد النساء بنسبة تسعة إلى واحد، وقد فعلوا ذلك من خلال تطبيق قانون قديم يسمح بترحيل النساء المدانات بجرائم صغيرة، ووضعهن في سفن العبيد القذرة والموبوءة بالأمراض والتي كانت تحمل الناجيات إلى الجانب الآخر من العالم. تذكرة الصفيح (سميت على اسم بطاقة القصدير المربوطة حول رقاب المدانين) يتم سردها من خلال عيون النساء والأطفال الذين تم شحنهم إلى أرض فان ديمين، والتي ستتم إعادة تسميتها لاحقًا. تسمانيا، التي طالما أهملت كتب التاريخ رحلتها المروعة التي دامت أربعة أشهر ونجاتها بأعجوبة. كانت أغنيس ماكميلان واحدة من آلاف الأطفال الذين عوقبوا لارتكابهم جريمة تافهة من خلال نقلهم إلى الأراضي النائية القاسية. يستكشف الكتاب خلفية أغنيس، حيث تخلى عنها والدها وتوفيت والدتها عندما كانت أغنيس في الثانية عشرة من عمرها، ولم يكن أمامها خيار سوى اللجوء إلى الشوارع. تم دفع الطفلة الجائعة لسرقة بقايا الطعام للبقاء على قيد الحياة، مما أدى إلى القبض عليها وعلى صديقتها المقربة جانيت وإدانتهما بالمرور المروع إلى أستراليا. إن قرب علاقتهما، والفكاهة التي وجدتها معًا، وبراعتهما ساعدت الفتيات على العيش في ظل مصاعب وإذلال لا يمكن تصوره. يخبرنا المؤلف أن أحفاد الفتيات يعتقدون أن الخصائص المماثلة تميز الشخصية الأسترالية اليوم. يتتبع Swiss حياة أغنيس وجانيت ولودلو، بالإضافة إلى حياة إليزابيث فراي، الإصلاحية الرائدة في الكويكرز التي ناضلت لجعل حياة النساء المدانات أكثر احتمالاً. كسرت هؤلاء النساء قيود العبودية لتأسيس مجتمع يسبق بقية العالم بمائة عام، حيث تم تحقيق المساواة بين الرجل والمرأة. لقد هجرهم وطنهم وأهملهم التاريخ، وأصبحت هؤلاء النساء، بقوة الإرادة المطلقة، قلب وروح الأمة الجديدة. >"يتميز الأيرلنديون بأعداد غير متناسبة بين المدانين المنقولين إلى أستراليا. ارتفع عدد المدانات الأيرلندية بشكل كبير في أعقاب المجاعة الأيرلندية الكبرى، وهي الفترة التي شهدت أيضًا نقل أكثر من 4000 فتاة يتيمة أيرلندية باعتبارها "سلالة تربية" للمستعمرة الجديدة. تضفي ديبورا سويس ضوءًا جديدًا ونظرة ثاقبة على قصة السجينات اللاتي تم نقلهن إلى أستراليا، وفي سرد ​​هذه القصة من خلال حياة عدد من النساء، تعيد لنا مأساة وانتصار هؤلاء النساء الصامدات." - ميرتين أو فاينين، سفيرة أيرلندا "تكشف ديبورا سويس ببلاغة وجذابة عن قطعة مدفونة ومهمة من "تاريخها" الأسترالي، وهي نساء مُدانات عانين من الظلم والقسوة والظلم. والمشقة. والأكثر من ذلك، فإن السويسريين يسلطون الضوء بمهارة على جوهرهم في مرونتهم غير العادية وتصميمهم وشجاعتهم. مصدر إلهام للجميع." -بيروت ريجين، مؤلفة كتاب الفراشات الحديدية: النساء يغيرن أنفسهن والعالم. "_تذكرة الصفيح_ توضح بقوة الضعف واليأس الذي لا يمكن تصوره والذي جاء مع كونك فقيرًا وأنثى قبل مائتي عام في بريطانيا. لكن قصص النساء في هذا الكتاب لا تختلف كثيراً عن قصص الملايين الذين يتم الاتجار بهم عبر القارات حتى اليوم من أجل العمالة الرخيصة أو الجنس. ومثل هؤلاء النساء، تجسد الأمهات المؤسسات لأستراليا نفس المرونة الرائعة وسعة الحيلة التي تظهرها النساء لانتشال أنفسهن وأسرهن من الشدائد. تذكرة الصفيح تحكي قصتهم، وتثري تاريخنا المشترك كنساء وكبشر." -ريتو شارما، المؤسس المشارك ورئيس منظمة Women Thrive Worldwide "في كثير من الأحيان، لا تذكر كتب التاريخ قصص النساء والفقراء وأولئك الذين ابتلعهم نظام السجون. لقد كسرت ديبورا سويس هذا الحاجز الثلاثي لتقدم لنا قصة مؤثرة ورائعة - عن الأشخاص المنسيين الذين تم استغلالهم بلا رحمة، وعن امرأة رائعة فعلت الكثير لمساعدتهم. " - آدم هوتشيلد، مؤلف كتاب شبح الملك ليوبولد وBury the Chains، المؤسس المشارك لمنتج Mother Jones الوصفتروي المؤرخة ديبورا ج. سويس القصة المفجعة والمرعبة والمنتصرة في نهاية المطاف للنساء المنفيات من الجزر البريطانية وأجبرن على العبودية والوحشية - اللاتي أنشأن المجتمع الأكثر تحررًا في عصرهن أدينت أغنيس ماكميلان وجانيت هيوستن بتهمة سرقة بريدجيت موليجان لسرقة دلو من الحليب. إحدى عشرة ملعقة، بسبب جرائمهم، لن يتم إرسالهم إلى السجن، بل إلى سفن تعج بالمدانات الأخريات، حيث تم تعليق تذاكر من الصفيح، مختومة بالأرقام، حول أعناق النساء، وانطلقت السفن لنقلهن إلى منزلهن الجديد. : أرض فان ديمين، التي عُرفت فيما بعد باسم تسمانيا، وهي جزء من جوهرة تاج الإمبراطورية البريطانية، أستراليا. كان عدد الرجال يفوق عدد النساء بنسبة تسعة إلى واحد هناك، وكان عدد قليل من المواطنين "الصالحين" مهتمين بالهجرة. وقد وفر ترحيل الآلاف من المجرمين الصغار -الغالبية العظمى من المجرمين غير العنيفين- حلاً مناسبًا للحكومة. وعند عبور المياه الموبوءة بأسماك القرش، مات البعض في حطام السفن خلال الرحلة التي استغرقت أربعة أشهر، أو استسلموا للعدوى وتم إرسالهم إلى قبر مائي. وتم تشريب أخريات ضد إرادتهن من قبل خاطفيهن. لقد وصلوا على أنهم مجرد ممتلكات. لكن بشكل لا يصدق، مع مرور السنين، تمكنوا ليس فقط من تحمل الحرمان والألم ولكن أيضًا من الازدهار وفقًا لشروطهم الخاصة، وكسروا قيود العبودية، وشكلوا مجتمعًا يعامل المرأة على قدم المساواة ويقود العالم في مجال حقوق المرأة. تذكرة الصفيح تأخذنا إلى فجر القرن التاسع عشر وإلى حياة أغنيس ماكميلان، التي حملها تحديها ومرونتها إلى تمرد أكثر دراماتيكية بكثير؛ أفضل صديقة أغنيس جانيت هيوستن، التي أنقذتها من عواصف جلاسكو وتم نقلها أيضًا إلى أرض فان ديمين؛ لودلو تيدر، أُجبرت على اختيار واحد فقط من أطفالها الأربعة لمرافقتها إلى الجانب الآخر من العالم؛ بريدجيت موليجان، التي أنجبت سلسلة من النساء الأقوياء تمتد حتى يومنا هذا. ويحكي الفيلم أيضًا قصة إليزابيث جورني فراي، وهي إصلاحية من جماعة الكويكرز أثرت في حياتهم كلها. في نهاية المطاف، إنها قصة النساء اللاتي نبذهن وطنهن ونسيهن التاريخ - اللاتي أصبحن، بقوة الإرادة المطلقة، قلب وروح أمة جديدة.

This New York Times ' bestseller features the West's most prominent lawmen and criminals, who tell their stories of fight, death, and survival. In the romantic narrative of the Old West, two larger-than-life characters emerged as the perfect foils for each other—the rampant outlaw and the heroic peace officer. Without the villain, sheriffs would not have needed to uphold the law; and without the sheriff, villains would have had no law to break. Together, both personalities fought, lost, and triumphed amid shootouts, train robberies, and bank holdups against the backdrop of the lawless American frontier. This spectacular New York Times ' bestselling collection of true memoirs and autobiographies, told by the very people who lived these criminal and righteous lives during the Old West, reveal the outlaw and peace officer at their worst and best. Watch as Mark Twain introduces notorious gunslinger Jack Slade; hear about Theodore Roosevelt's encounters with men, women, and game from Roosevelt himself; read sheriff Pat Garrett's biography of Billy the Kid, the outlaw he killed; and listen as lawmen Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp describe each other in their own accounts. Including other carefully curated stories by Tom Horn, Cole Younger, and more, Outlaws and Peace Officers invokes danger, honor, and the fight for survival during this perilous but exciting chapter in American history.

Review"_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, co-founder of Mother Jones. Product DescriptionHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

مراجعة"_The Tin Ticket_، الذي كتبته خبيرة شؤون الجنسين المتعلمة في جامعة هارفارد ديبورا ج. سويس ونشرته بيركلي، هو كتاب رائع. إنه يسلط الضوء على جزء من التاريخ الذي ظل موجودًا لفترة طويلة تم التغاضي عنها، بطريقة تجعل القارئ سريعًا في مقعده من المقدمة المثيرة إلى نهاية القصة الحالية. في أوائل القرن التاسع عشر، سعت الحكومة البريطانية إلى بناء الطبقة العاملة في مستعمرتها الأسترالية الجديدة ، أين لقد فاق عدد الرجال عدد النساء بنسبة تسعة إلى واحد، وقد فعلوا ذلك من خلال تطبيق قانون قديم يسمح بترحيل النساء المدانات بجرائم صغيرة، ووضعهن في سفن العبيد القذرة والموبوءة بالأمراض والتي كانت تحمل الناجيات إلى الجانب الآخر من العالم. تذكرة الصفيح (سميت على اسم بطاقة القصدير المربوطة حول رقاب المدانين) يتم سردها من خلال عيون النساء والأطفال الذين تم شحنهم إلى أرض فان ديمين، والتي ستتم إعادة تسميتها لاحقًا. تسمانيا، التي طالما أهملت كتب التاريخ رحلتها المروعة التي دامت أربعة أشهر ونجاتها بأعجوبة. كانت أغنيس ماكميلان واحدة من آلاف الأطفال الذين عوقبوا لارتكابهم جريمة تافهة من خلال نقلهم إلى الأراضي النائية القاسية. يستكشف الكتاب خلفية أغنيس، حيث تخلى عنها والدها وتوفيت والدتها عندما كانت أغنيس في الثانية عشرة من عمرها، ولم يكن أمامها خيار سوى اللجوء إلى الشوارع. تم دفع الطفلة الجائعة لسرقة بقايا الطعام للبقاء على قيد الحياة، مما أدى إلى القبض عليها وعلى صديقتها المقربة جانيت وإدانتهما بالمرور المروع إلى أستراليا. إن قرب علاقتهما، والفكاهة التي وجدتها معًا، وبراعتهما ساعدت الفتيات على العيش في ظل مصاعب وإذلال لا يمكن تصوره. يخبرنا المؤلف أن أحفاد الفتيات يعتقدون أن الخصائص المماثلة تميز الشخصية الأسترالية اليوم. يتتبع Swiss حياة أغنيس وجانيت ولودلو، بالإضافة إلى حياة إليزابيث فراي، الإصلاحية الرائدة في الكويكرز التي ناضلت لجعل حياة النساء المدانات أكثر احتمالاً. كسرت هؤلاء النساء قيود العبودية لتأسيس مجتمع يسبق بقية العالم بمائة عام، حيث تم تحقيق المساواة بين الرجل والمرأة. لقد هجرهم وطنهم وأهملهم التاريخ، وأصبحت هؤلاء النساء، بقوة الإرادة المطلقة، قلب وروح الأمة الجديدة. >"يتميز الأيرلنديون بأعداد غير متناسبة بين المدانين المنقولين إلى أستراليا. ارتفع عدد المدانات الأيرلندية بشكل كبير في أعقاب المجاعة الأيرلندية الكبرى، وهي الفترة التي شهدت أيضًا نقل أكثر من 4000 فتاة يتيمة أيرلندية باعتبارها "سلالة تربية" للمستعمرة الجديدة. تضفي ديبورا سويس ضوءًا جديدًا ونظرة ثاقبة على قصة السجينات اللاتي تم نقلهن إلى أستراليا، وفي سرد ​​هذه القصة من خلال حياة عدد من النساء، تعيد لنا مأساة وانتصار هؤلاء النساء الصامدات." - ميرتين أو فاينين، سفيرة أيرلندا "تكشف ديبورا سويس ببلاغة وجذابة عن قطعة مدفونة ومهمة من "تاريخها" الأسترالي، وهي نساء مُدانات عانين من الظلم والقسوة والظلم. والمشقة. والأكثر من ذلك، فإن السويسريين يسلطون الضوء بمهارة على جوهرهم في مرونتهم غير العادية وتصميمهم وشجاعتهم. مصدر إلهام للجميع." -بيروت ريجين، مؤلفة كتاب الفراشات الحديدية: النساء يغيرن أنفسهن والعالم. "_تذكرة الصفيح_ توضح بقوة الضعف واليأس الذي لا يمكن تصوره والذي جاء مع كونك فقيرًا وأنثى قبل مائتي عام في بريطانيا. لكن قصص النساء في هذا الكتاب لا تختلف كثيراً عن قصص الملايين الذين يتم الاتجار بهم عبر القارات حتى اليوم من أجل العمالة الرخيصة أو الجنس. ومثل هؤلاء النساء، تجسد الأمهات المؤسسات لأستراليا نفس المرونة الرائعة وسعة الحيلة التي تظهرها النساء لانتشال أنفسهن وأسرهن من الشدائد. تذكرة الصفيح تحكي قصتهم، وتثري تاريخنا المشترك كنساء وكبشر." -ريتو شارما، المؤسس المشارك ورئيس منظمة Women Thrive Worldwide "في كثير من الأحيان، لا تذكر كتب التاريخ قصص النساء والفقراء وأولئك الذين ابتلعهم نظام السجون. لقد كسرت ديبورا سويس هذا الحاجز الثلاثي لتقدم لنا قصة مؤثرة ورائعة - عن الأشخاص المنسيين الذين تم استغلالهم بلا رحمة، وعن امرأة رائعة فعلت الكثير لمساعدتهم. " - آدم هوتشيلد، مؤلف كتاب شبح الملك ليوبولد وBury the Chains، المؤسس المشارك لمنتج Mother Jones الوصفتروي المؤرخة ديبورا ج. سويس القصة المفجعة والمرعبة والمنتصرة في نهاية المطاف للنساء المنفيات من الجزر البريطانية وأجبرن على العبودية والوحشية - اللاتي أنشأن المجتمع الأكثر تحررًا في عصرهن أدينت أغنيس ماكميلان وجانيت هيوستن بتهمة سرقة بريدجيت موليجان لسرقة دلو من الحليب. إحدى عشرة ملعقة، بسبب جرائمهم، لن يتم إرسالهم إلى السجن، بل إلى سفن تعج بالمدانات الأخريات، حيث تم تعليق تذاكر من الصفيح، مختومة بالأرقام، حول أعناق النساء، وانطلقت السفن لنقلهن إلى منزلهن الجديد. : أرض فان ديمين، التي عُرفت فيما بعد باسم تسمانيا، وهي جزء من جوهرة تاج الإمبراطورية البريطانية، أستراليا. كان عدد الرجال يفوق عدد النساء بنسبة تسعة إلى واحد هناك، وكان عدد قليل من المواطنين "الصالحين" مهتمين بالهجرة. وقد وفر ترحيل الآلاف من المجرمين الصغار -الغالبية العظمى من المجرمين غير العنيفين- حلاً مناسبًا للحكومة. وعند عبور المياه الموبوءة بأسماك القرش، مات البعض في حطام السفن خلال الرحلة التي استغرقت أربعة أشهر، أو استسلموا للعدوى وتم إرسالهم إلى قبر مائي. وتم تشريب أخريات ضد إرادتهن من قبل خاطفيهن. لقد وصلوا على أنهم مجرد ممتلكات. لكن بشكل لا يصدق، مع مرور السنين، تمكنوا ليس فقط من تحمل الحرمان والألم ولكن أيضًا من الازدهار وفقًا لشروطهم الخاصة، وكسروا قيود العبودية، وشكلوا مجتمعًا يعامل المرأة على قدم المساواة ويقود العالم في مجال حقوق المرأة. تذكرة الصفيح تأخذنا إلى فجر القرن التاسع عشر وإلى حياة أغنيس ماكميلان، التي حملها تحديها ومرونتها إلى تمرد أكثر دراماتيكية بكثير؛ أفضل صديقة أغنيس جانيت هيوستن، التي أنقذتها من عواصف جلاسكو وتم نقلها أيضًا إلى أرض فان ديمين؛ لودلو تيدر، أُجبرت على اختيار واحد فقط من أطفالها الأربعة لمرافقتها إلى الجانب الآخر من العالم؛ بريدجيت موليجان، التي أنجبت سلسلة من النساء الأقوياء تمتد حتى يومنا هذا. ويحكي الفيلم أيضًا قصة إليزابيث جورني فراي، وهي إصلاحية من جماعة الكويكرز أثرت في حياتهم كلها. في نهاية المطاف، إنها قصة النساء اللاتي نبذهن وطنهن ونسيهن التاريخ - اللاتي أصبحن، بقوة الإرادة المطلقة، قلب وروح أمة جديدة.

A survivor’s true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush. At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost beyond hope—until a twenty-nine-year-old hero volunteered to cross the desert to get help. This young hero, William Lewis Manly, was one of the survivors of the tragedy, and he lived to tell the tale forty-five years later in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. In a time of unmarked frontiers and wilderness, Manly lived the true life of a pioneer. After being hit by gold rush fever Manly joined the fateful wagon train that would get swallowed up by the barren, arid, hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, ran out of water, split up, and lost and buried their own kind who perished. When Manly’s remaining band of ten came across a rare water hole, he and a companion, John Rogers, left the rest by the water and crossed the treacherous Panamint Mountains and Mojave Desert by themselves in search for rescue. In a true act of heroism against all odds, the two finally returned twenty-five days later with help, rescuing their compatriots, including four children, even when it seemed all hope was lost. Told at the end of the nineteenth century, Manly’s compelling and stirring account brings alive to modern-day readers the unimaginable hardships of America’s brave pioneers, and a chapter in Californian history that should not be forgotten.

Review "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -M?irt?n ? Fain?n, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains , co-founder of Mother Jones . Product Description Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

The convict women who built a continent...'A moving and fascinating story.'--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's GhostHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time.The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

Review "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -M?irt?n ? Fain?n, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains , co-founder of Mother Jones . Product Description Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

<p><P>Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE&#8212;with earlier antecedents and later flourishings&#8212;whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions&#8212;and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced. <P>The selections gathered here, in poetic, readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>Poet and translator Barnstone and Meyer (Bible & Christian studies, Chapman Univ.) have joined forces to present a large collection of gnostic source literature. The nature and beliefs of gnosticism are hotly debated. Michael Williams (Rethinking Gnosticism) and Karen L. King (What Is Gnosticism?) have argued for the abandonment of the label as something artificially applied by Christian orthodoxy to heretical movements with widely varying beliefs. Others, including the editors of this volume, argue that certain specific ideas distinguish beliefs of the gnostic religions: salvation through knowledge and enlightened living, wisdom personified as a character in a cosmic drama, and dualistic creation stories positing a higher God of the spirit and a lower demiurge who created the physical world. Meyer's introduction presents highlights of this debate. The selection of texts that follows (most elegantly translated by Barnstone) ranges across two millennia and various cultures. Each work, some translated into English for the first time, is accompanied by a clear introduction and synopsis. This is an important sampler of relatively unknown spiritual literature. The publication by Shambhala gives an underlying sense of credence to the contents as, in Meyer's words, a "sacred literature attractive to free spirits." Recommended for all libraries with an audience interested in religions, alternative spirituality, and early Christianity.-William P. Collins, Library of Congress Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.</p>

Review"_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, co-founder of Mother Jones. Product DescriptionHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

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Review "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains , co-founder of Mother Jones . Product Description Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation. History,General,Biography & Autobiography,Women,Social Science,Political,19th Century,Convict labor,Australia & New Zealand,Australia,Penology,Convict labor - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century,Penal transportation,Exiles - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century,Social History,Women prisoners - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century,Tasmania,Women's Studies,Women prisoners,Penal transportation - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century Review "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -M谩irt铆n 脫 Fain铆n, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains , co-founder of Mother Jones . Product Description Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation. (as-gbk-encoding)

**The gripping nineteenth century memoir of death, despair, heroism, and a will to survive during the California Gold Rush.** Hit by Gold Rush fever in 1849, a wagon train headed for the California coast stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert. The men, women, and children were swallowed up by the hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, quickly ran out of water, and one by one, buried their own who perished. They were lost beyond hope, until twenty-nine-year-old William Lewis Manly, and his companion, John Rogers, decided to cross the treacherous Panamint Mountains by themselves in search for rescue. Manly lived to tell the tale, and forty-five years later he did—in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. Manly's stirring account brings alive the...

Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best of the Month, August 2009: How do you describe a 1,300-page book in 150 words? Start with adjectives (some of them opposites): vast, intrepid, passionate, and yes, sometimes dull, illuminating and infuriating, satirical and confessional, exhausting and exhaustive, dirty, fertile, and dry. William T. Vollmann, legendary for his huge, all-consuming books of fiction, history, and reporting, has spent much of the past ten years returning obsessively to one of the harshest but most contested territories in North America, the desert borderlands of southeastern California and northern Mexico he calls Imperial. Wading through water-use arcana, agri-booster archives, and centuries of colonial history; listening to lettuce farmers, motel clerks, and dance-hall hostesses; and crossing the border hundreds of times (while meeting those who cross via other means, and those who try to stop them), Vollmann has written an intensely personal fever dream of an encyclopedia that makes a strange, northern companion to last year's giant borderlands masterpiece, Roberto Bolano's 2666. --Tom NissleyFrom Publishers WeeklySignatureReviewed by Michael CoffeyThis is an exasperating, maddening, exhausting and inchorent book by the stunningly prolific Vollmann, who has really outdone himself. Eleven hundred pages plus endless endnotes about a single county in California is as perverse as Vollmann has dared be—which is saying a lot for a guy who has written a massive collection of tales about skinheads (Rainbow Stories), a seven-volume history of the settling of a measly continent (Seven Dreams) and another seven volumes on the history of violence (Rising Up and Rising Down). But a big book about one county? Well, it's not just any county. Imperial is the southeastern-most county in California, bordering with Mexico to the south and Arizona to the east, across the Colorado River. Is it a place deserving of this seemingly disproportionate chronicle? Today, it is a hot

Review"\_The Tin Ticket\_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -\_Midwest Book Review\_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "\_The Tin Ticket\_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, co-founder of Mother Jones. Product DescriptionHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

Review "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains , co-founder of Mother Jones . Product Description Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

An epic study of an emblematic American region by one of our most celebrated writersIt sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern California, right across the Mexican border. For generations of migrant workers, from Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to Mexican laborers today, Imperial County has held the promise of paradise-and the reality of hell. It is a land beautiful and harsh, enticing and deadly, rich in history and heartbreak. Across the border, the desert is the same but there are different secrets. In Imperial, award-winning writer William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, and by extension into the dark soul of American imperialism. Known for his penetrating meditations on poverty and violence, Vollmann has spent ten years doggedly investigating every facet of this bi-national locus, raiding archives, exploring polluted rivers, guarded factories, and Chinese tunnels, talking with everyone from farmers to border patrolmen in his search for the fading American dream and its Mexican equivalent. The result is a majestic book that addresses current debates on immigration, agribusiness, and corporate exploitation, issues that will define America's identity in the twenty-first century.

The convict women who built a continent ... "A moving and fascinating story."--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation. Read more... Abstract: The convict women who built a continent ... "A moving and fascinating story."--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation

<p><P>Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE&#8212;with earlier antecedents and later flourishings&#8212;whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions&#8212;and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced. <P>The selections gathered here, in poetic, readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>Poet and translator Barnstone and Meyer (Bible & Christian studies, Chapman Univ.) have joined forces to present a large collection of gnostic source literature. The nature and beliefs of gnosticism are hotly debated. Michael Williams (Rethinking Gnosticism) and Karen L. King (What Is Gnosticism?) have argued for the abandonment of the label as something artificially applied by Christian orthodoxy to heretical movements with widely varying beliefs. Others, including the editors of this volume, argue that certain specific ideas distinguish beliefs of the gnostic religions: salvation through knowledge and enlightened living, wisdom personified as a character in a cosmic drama, and dualistic creation stories positing a higher God of the spirit and a lower demiurge who created the physical world. Meyer's introduction presents highlights of this debate. The selection of texts that follows (most elegantly translated by Barnstone) ranges across two millennia and various cultures. Each work, some translated into English for the first time, is accompanied by a clear introduction and synopsis. This is an important sampler of relatively unknown spiritual literature. The publication by Shambhala gives an underlying sense of credence to the contents as, in Meyer's words, a "sacred literature attractive to free spirits." Recommended for all libraries with an audience interested in religions, alternative spirituality, and early Christianity.-William P. Collins, Library of Congress Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.</p>

Review "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation." -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women." -Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador of Ireland "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all." -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World. "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity. The Tin Ticket tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings." -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, co-founder of Mother Jones. Product Description Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women's necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire's crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government. Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women's rights. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation. Title Page 6 Copyright Page 6 Dedication 8 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 11 Chapter 1 - The Grey-Eyed Girl 18 Chapter 2 - Crown of Thieves 43 Chapter 3 - The Angel of Newgate 65 Chapter 4 - Sweet Sixteen 86 Chapter 5 - More Sinned Against Than Sinning 117 Chapter 6 - Ludlow’s Choice 142 Chapter 7 - Liverpool Street 163 Chapter 8 - The Yellow C 191 Chapter 9 - Flames of Love 214 Chapter 10 - Bendigo’s Gold 241 APPENDIX 1 262 APPENDIX 2 266 APPENDIX 3 268 APPENDIX 4 270 APPENDIX 5 273 APPENDIX 6 289 APPENDIX 7 291 NOTES 294 BIBLIOGRAPHY 325 INDEX 346 women exiled,British Isles,slavery,savagery,Tasmania,rape Convict labor,Australia & New Zealand,Australia,Social Science,Convict labor - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century,Penology,Political,Women prisoners - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century,General,Penal transportation,Exiles - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century,Penal transportation - Australia - Tasmania - History - 19th century,Social History,Biography & Autobiography,Tasmania,Women,Women's Studies,Women prisoners,19th Century,History