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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... manners and mores reflected in the convicts ' and pastoral workers ' ballads rapidly gained strength among the lower orders . In part this was no doubt due to like conditions having like effects . The early labour shortage in Western ...
... manners and mores reflected in the convicts ' and pastoral workers ' ballads rapidly gained strength among the lower orders . In part this was no doubt due to like conditions having like effects . The early labour shortage in Western ...
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... manners and ideas , between the coastal cities and the hinterland . But the strength of outback influence is indicated by the very phrase used , in the first half of the nineteenth century , to describe Sydney roughs . These rowdy ...
... manners and ideas , between the coastal cities and the hinterland . But the strength of outback influence is indicated by the very phrase used , in the first half of the nineteenth century , to describe Sydney roughs . These rowdy ...
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... manners were understandable , if not excusable , in child- ren . When carried on into manhood , they often provoked respectable immigrants and visitors to fury . The urbane and well- read Mundy was moved to wish that persons of this ...
... manners were understandable , if not excusable , in child- ren . When carried on into manhood , they often provoked respectable immigrants and visitors to fury . The urbane and well- read Mundy was moved to wish that persons of this ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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