Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

The Australian Legend

Front Cover
1 Review
Oxford University Press, 1965 - National characteristics, Australian - 283 pages
First published 1958; analysis of 19th century Australian history; references to relations between Aborigines and early settlers.

From inside the book

 

48 pages matching Victoria in this book

Page 268

Page 268

Where's the rest of this book?

What people are saying - Write a review

Review: The Australian Legend

User Review  - Rob - Goodreads

This is one of THE books to read on Australian history. The problem is that it is mostly a myth making effort rather than history. The left creates myths about itself and its place in Australian ... Read full review

Related books

The history of Australia: the twentieth century, 1901-1975
The history of Australia: the twentieth century, 1901-1975
Russel Braddock Ward
Snippet view - 1978
Damned whores and God's police: the colonization of women in Australia
Damned whores and God's police: the colonization of women in Australia
Anne Summers
Snippet view - 1975
A nation of trees: Australian rites
A nation of trees: Australian rites
Rosemary Millington
Snippet view - 1963
All related books »

Contents

THE LEGEND AND THE TASK
1
THE FOUNDING FATHERS
15
CELTS AND CURRENCY
46
Copyright

8 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

The Australian legend
The Australian legend
Russel Braddock Ward
Snippet view - 1966
The Australian legend
The Australian legend
Russel Braddock Ward
Snippet view - 1965
The Australian legend
The Australian legend
Russel Braddock Ward
Snippet view - 1978
View all »

Common terms and phrases

A. B. Paterson Aborigines American attitude Australian national ballads become Ben Hall Botany Bay Britain British Bulletin bullock-drivers bush-workers bushmen bushrangers cattle chum collectivist colonists colony contemporary criminals Currency Lads Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling felt free immigrants frontier frontiersman Furphy Gold Rush goldfields Harris History influence interior Irish Jack Jackaroo John labour later less Library of Victoria living London masters mates mateship Melbourne middle-class Moreton Bay native native-born never nineteenth century noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers Paterson perhaps period plains police political popular population prisoners Queensland sentiment Settlers and Convicts shearers shearing sheep shepherd social society South Wales squatters stanza station swagman Sydney Sydney Morning Herald tended tion tradition tralia Transportation Turner typical up-country Victoria working-class writes wrote

Bibliographic information

QR code for The Australian Legend
TitleThe Australian Legend
AuthorRussel Braddock Ward
Edition2
PublisherOxford University Press, 1965
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized19 Feb 2009
Length283 pages
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan