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ERIC Number: EJ327144
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Transported to Van Diemen's Land: The Boys of the "Frances Charlotte" (1832) and "Lord Goderich" (1841).
Jordan, Thomas E.
Child Development, v56 n4 p1092-99 Aug 1985
The logs of two ships transporting juvenile convicts from Great Britain to Australia in the early nineteenth century have been transcribed. Data on the backgrounds of the boys and height data are presented and analyzed. Comparisons are made with ninteenth- and twentieth-century data sets. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Background, Body Height, Comparative Analysis, Criminals, Delinquency, Foreign Countries
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Great Britain; Historical Materials; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century