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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... W. C. Wentworth dreamed of ' a new Britannia in another world ' , 24 but in a very important sense , ' a new ... Wentworth's poem also saw ' the early blot ' of convictism as the main impediment to a true national development . This view ...
... W. C. Wentworth dreamed of ' a new Britannia in another world ' , 24 but in a very important sense , ' a new ... Wentworth's poem also saw ' the early blot ' of convictism as the main impediment to a true national development . This view ...
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... which yet included them all . In the next chapter we shall seek to estimate the influence of the Gold Rush on the outlook of ' the nomad tribe ' . CHAPTER IV 1 W. C. Wentworth , Statistical , Historical 106 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
... which yet included them all . In the next chapter we shall seek to estimate the influence of the Gold Rush on the outlook of ' the nomad tribe ' . CHAPTER IV 1 W. C. Wentworth , Statistical , Historical 106 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
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Russel Braddock Ward. CHAPTER IV 1 W. C. Wentworth , Statistical , Historical and Political Description of New South Wales , etc. , London 1819 , p . 64 . 2 T. M. Perry , " The Spread of Rural Settlement in New South Wales , etc ...
Russel Braddock Ward. CHAPTER IV 1 W. C. Wentworth , Statistical , Historical and Political Description of New South Wales , etc. , London 1819 , p . 64 . 2 T. M. Perry , " The Spread of Rural Settlement in New South Wales , etc ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
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