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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... Britain were such as to drive a great many people to crime . In view of the state of British society during and after the Napoleonic Wars it would have been surprising indeed if there had not been a great many hardened criminals ...
... Britain were such as to drive a great many people to crime . In view of the state of British society during and after the Napoleonic Wars it would have been surprising indeed if there had not been a great many hardened criminals ...
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... Britain 1760-1950 , London 1950 , ch . 1 ; J. L. and B. Hammond , The Village Labourer 1760- 1833 , London 1913 , p . 195 and passim . 10 11 J. L. and B. Hammond , Rise of Modern Industry , London 1925 , pp . 205-6 and ch . 12 , 13 ...
... Britain 1760-1950 , London 1950 , ch . 1 ; J. L. and B. Hammond , The Village Labourer 1760- 1833 , London 1913 , p . 195 and passim . 10 11 J. L. and B. Hammond , Rise of Modern Industry , London 1925 , pp . 205-6 and ch . 12 , 13 ...
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... Britain and Ireland , and the eleven per cent of Australians who are Presbyterians are about half as great again a proportion as Presbyterians are in the whole of the British Isles . One might expect to find then that Irish influence ...
... Britain and Ireland , and the eleven per cent of Australians who are Presbyterians are about half as great again a proportion as Presbyterians are in the whole of the British Isles . One might expect to find then that Irish influence ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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