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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... frontier ' influences , were not less important for a just understanding of 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 ...
... frontier ' influences , were not less important for a just understanding of 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 ...
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... frontier were to promote national unity and nationalism and to promote democracy . It is significant that , as in nineteenth - century Australia , the proportion of native - born citizens was very much higher on the American frontier ...
... frontier were to promote national unity and nationalism and to promote democracy . It is significant that , as in nineteenth - century Australia , the proportion of native - born citizens was very much higher on the American frontier ...
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... Frontier in American 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 ...
... Frontier in American 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 ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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