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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Page 13
... nineteenth century , though by about 1880 a cabbage - tree hat might cost up to five pounds.2 20 From the beginning , then , outback manners and mores , work- ing upwards from the lowest strata of society and outwards from the interior ...
... nineteenth century , though by about 1880 a cabbage - tree hat might cost up to five pounds.2 20 From the beginning , then , outback manners and mores , work- ing upwards from the lowest strata of society and outwards from the interior ...
Page 209
... nineteenth century the pastoral workers had formed a semi - literate community , isolated by distance and poor communi- cations from the cities , and from the authority of the central governments situated there . Thus traditional ...
... nineteenth century the pastoral workers had formed a semi - literate community , isolated by distance and poor communi- cations from the cities , and from the authority of the central governments situated there . Thus traditional ...
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... nineteenth century and particularly towards the end of it , the frontier should have possessed so much prestige ... century interest in the predominantly ' soft ' noble savage , of the South Seas and elsewhere , preceded nineteenth ...
... nineteenth century and particularly towards the end of it , the frontier should have possessed so much prestige ... century interest in the predominantly ' soft ' noble savage , of the South Seas and elsewhere , preceded nineteenth ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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A. B. Paterson Aborigines American attitude Australian national ballads become Ben Hall Britain British Bulletin bullock-drivers bush-workers bushmen bushrangers cabbage-tree hat cattle chum collectivist colonists colony contemporary criminals Currency Lad Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling felt free immigrants frontier frontiersman Furphy Gold Rush goldfields Harris History influence interior Irish Jack John labour later least less Library of Victoria living London manners masters mates mateship Melbourne middle-class native native-born Ned Kelly never nineteenth century noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers Paterson perhaps period police political popular population prisoners Queensland sentiment Settlers and Convicts shearers shearing sheep shepherd social society South Wales squatters stanza station swagman Sydney tended tion tradition tralia Transportation Turner typical up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria working-class writes wrote