The Australian Legend"This book attempts to trace the historical origins and development of the Australian legend or national mystique. It argues that a specifically Australian outlook grew up first and most clearly among the bush workers in the Australian pastoral industry, and that this group has had an influence, completely disproportionate to its numerical and economic strength, on the attitudes of the whole Australian community."--Foreword |
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Page 21
... Britain were such as to drive a great many people to crime . In view of the state of British society during and after the Napoleonic Wars it would have been surprising indeed if there had not been a great many hardened criminals ...
... Britain were such as to drive a great many people to crime . In view of the state of British society during and after the Napoleonic Wars it would have been surprising indeed if there had not been a great many hardened criminals ...
Page 56
... Britain , but rather the reverse . Before that time it was by no means clear . In the nineteenth century Australian patriotic senti- ment was usually more or less deeply tinged with ' disloyalty ' , with radical notions of complete ...
... Britain , but rather the reverse . Before that time it was by no means clear . In the nineteenth century Australian patriotic senti- ment was usually more or less deeply tinged with ' disloyalty ' , with radical notions of complete ...
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... Britain , the United States and New Zealand at the same time as it did in Australia , during the 1880's and 1890's . This congruity in time was obviously not accidental but a result of the fact that very similar , and closely inter ...
... Britain , the United States and New Zealand at the same time as it did in Australia , during the 1880's and 1890's . This congruity in time was obviously not accidental but a result of the fact that very similar , and closely inter ...
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