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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... History , New York 1948 ed . , p . 4 . 3 Quoted Desmond Byrne , Australian Writers , London 1896 , p . 197 . 4 For trenchant criticisms of Turner's views see G. R. Taylor ( ed . ) , The Turner Thesis , etc. , Boston 1949 . 5 ' Frontier ...
... History , New York 1948 ed . , p . 4 . 3 Quoted Desmond Byrne , Australian Writers , London 1896 , p . 197 . 4 For trenchant criticisms of Turner's views see G. R. Taylor ( ed . ) , The Turner Thesis , etc. , Boston 1949 . 5 ' Frontier ...
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... History , p . 37 . 30 Arnold Hauser , The Social History of Art , 2 vols . , London 1951 , vol . 2 , p . 695 , and passim ; and G. V. Plekhanov , Art and Social Life , London 1953 ed . , passim . 31 T. S. Eliot , The Use of Poetry and ...
... History , p . 37 . 30 Arnold Hauser , The Social History of Art , 2 vols . , London 1951 , vol . 2 , p . 695 , and passim ; and G. V. Plekhanov , Art and Social Life , London 1953 ed . , passim . 31 T. S. Eliot , The Use of Poetry and ...
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... history , and draws parallels between frontier life in America and Australia , particularly adverting to the frontier theory ' of the influential American historian F. J. Turner and its application to American history . It can justly be ...
... history , and draws parallels between frontier life in America and Australia , particularly adverting to the frontier theory ' of the influential American historian F. J. Turner and its application to American history . It can justly be ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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