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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... respectable of the free immigrants.3 If we take the Currency population as having more in common , socially and traditionally , with the convict and emancipist body than with that of the respectable free immigrant and official classes ...
... respectable of the free immigrants.3 If we take the Currency population as having more in common , socially and traditionally , with the convict and emancipist body than with that of the respectable free immigrant and official classes ...
Page 66
... respectable immigrants and visitors to fury . The urbane and well- read Mundy was moved to wish that persons of this class had but one collective nose , in order that it might the more easily be rendered a bloody one . He wrote : These ...
... respectable immigrants and visitors to fury . The urbane and well- read Mundy was moved to wish that persons of this class had but one collective nose , in order that it might the more easily be rendered a bloody one . He wrote : These ...
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... respectable or conventional manners , a reckless im- providence , and a conviction that the working bushman was the ' true Australian ' , whose privilege it was to despise ' new chums ' and city folk . We have seen that this ethos ...
... respectable or conventional manners , a reckless im- providence , and a conviction that the working bushman was the ' true Australian ' , whose privilege it was to despise ' new chums ' and city folk . We have seen that this ethos ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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