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 67
... relatively absolute though minimum economic security , was perhaps the most striking difference between the outlook ... relative popularity has declined since , in the last century , both before and after the Gold Rush , rowing and ...
... relatively absolute though minimum economic security , was perhaps the most striking difference between the outlook ... relative popularity has declined since , in the last century , both before and after the Gold Rush , rowing and ...
Page 210
... relatively numerous and prosperous agricultural population in the eastern part of what had once been almost purely pastoral country . Between 1860 and 1890 , despite the Selection Acts , the total area sown with wheat in Australia ...
... relatively numerous and prosperous agricultural population in the eastern part of what had once been almost purely pastoral country . Between 1860 and 1890 , despite the Selection Acts , the total area sown with wheat in Australia ...
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... relatively uncouth frontiersman the supreme compliment of imitating , often unconsciously , his manners and outlook ? Turner was perhaps too much a man of his age for the question to have occurred to him , at any rate in the form in ...
... relatively uncouth frontiersman the supreme compliment of imitating , often unconsciously , his manners and outlook ? Turner was perhaps too much a man of his age for the question to have occurred to him , at any rate in the form in ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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