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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... outlook between the urban and rural labouring classes from which most of the convicts were drawn . The songs sung by both groups were usually inter- changeable , and there is little doubt but that they mirrored faith- fully the social ...
... outlook between the urban and rural labouring classes from which most of the convicts were drawn . The songs sung by both groups were usually inter- changeable , and there is little doubt but that they mirrored faith- fully the social ...
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... outlook of colonial working people was very strongly influenced by that of the con- victs . It is now clear that ... outlook was more complex and more important . We saw in the last chapter that what was new in this outlook tended to ...
... outlook of colonial working people was very strongly influenced by that of the con- victs . It is now clear that ... outlook was more complex and more important . We saw in the last chapter that what was new in this outlook tended to ...
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... outlook which later came to be thought of as ' typically Australian ' : a comradely independence based on group solidarity and relative economic plenty , a rough and ready capacity for ' stringy - bark and green - hide ' improvisation ...
... outlook which later came to be thought of as ' typically Australian ' : a comradely independence based on group solidarity and relative economic plenty , a rough and ready capacity for ' stringy - bark and green - hide ' improvisation ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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