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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... English statute book increased from fifty to about a hundred and fifty . It is true that after 1820 the reforms of Peel , Brougham and Lord John Russell mitigated the severity of the laws , though but slightly by modern standards . On ...
... English statute book increased from fifty to about a hundred and fifty . It is true that after 1820 the reforms of Peel , Brougham and Lord John Russell mitigated the severity of the laws , though but slightly by modern standards . On ...
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... English Colony at Botany Bay , etc. , London 1808 , p . 65 ; and cp . David Collins , An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales , etc. , 2 vols . , London 1802 , vol . 1 , pp . 359 ff . , 377 £ .; Edward Curr , An Account of ...
... English Colony at Botany Bay , etc. , London 1808 , p . 65 ; and cp . David Collins , An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales , etc. , 2 vols . , London 1802 , vol . 1 , pp . 359 ff . , 377 £ .; Edward Curr , An Account of ...
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... English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney wrote in his Voice from the Far Interior ( 1847 ) : The sweepings of English workhouses and Irish ...
... English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney wrote in his Voice from the Far Interior ( 1847 ) : The sweepings of English workhouses and Irish ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
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