The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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... American Declaration of Independence , and Americans played a prominent part in the defence of the Eureka Stockade . The American Consulate in Melbourne successfully exerted itself to have all its nationals who had taken up arms ...
... American Declaration of Independence , and Americans played a prominent part in the defence of the Eureka Stockade . The American Consulate in Melbourne successfully exerted itself to have all its nationals who had taken up arms ...
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... American history . In so far as the American was not just a transplanted European but a different kind of man , the change could only have been brought about by influences met with in the new land . And , as we have seen in Australian ...
... American history . In so far as the American was not just a transplanted European but a different kind of man , the change could only have been brought about by influences met with in the new land . And , as we have seen in Australian ...
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Russel Braddock Ward. up to 1890 the typical American frontiersman was a small , in- dividual agriculturist . Throughout the nineteenth century American land legislation facilitated the settlement of the west by small farmers . Each of ...
Russel Braddock Ward. up to 1890 the typical American frontiersman was a small , in- dividual agriculturist . Throughout the nineteenth century American land legislation facilitated the settlement of the west by small farmers . Each of ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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