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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... middle and lower classes . In pre - Gold - Rush Australia this process was intensified because there was no traditional aristocracy and a relatively very small ' middle class ' . The exclusionist ' upper class ' in early Australia was ...
... middle and lower classes . In pre - Gold - Rush Australia this process was intensified because there was no traditional aristocracy and a relatively very small ' middle class ' . The exclusionist ' upper class ' in early Australia was ...
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... middle - class people as Wentworth , Lang and Harpur would have an important place , but they have not much bearing on the unselfconscious but deeply - felt outlook of the common folk which is our proper concern . Before 1850 this ...
... middle - class people as Wentworth , Lang and Harpur would have an important place , but they have not much bearing on the unselfconscious but deeply - felt outlook of the common folk which is our proper concern . Before 1850 this ...
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... middle - class circles and in the cities . It is generally agreed that many , if not most , of the newcomers were imbued with Chartist or other radical ideas , 43 but up to and beyond the middle of the nineteenth century British ...
... middle - class circles and in the cities . It is generally agreed that many , if not most , of the newcomers were imbued with Chartist or other radical ideas , 43 but up to and beyond the middle of the nineteenth century British ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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