The Oxford History of Australia: 1770-1860, possessionsThe history of Australia from the 1770s to the 1860s is seen as tightly linked to events and ideologies in an age of revolution and in particular to the social problems of industrialising Britain. Australia was colonized by believers in political equality and economic liberty, and this volumetraces the development of the colonies into a stable society where organised sport prevented idleness and unrest among the lower orders and sectarianism and intercolonial rivalries absorbed the political energies of the middle classes. |
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By March 1790 Major Robert Ross , commanding officer of the marines , had
arrived with two companies of soldiers and 215 settlers , mostly convicts . In
August , there had arrived another 200 convicts and the population had grown to
more ...
By March 1790 Major Robert Ross , commanding officer of the marines , had
arrived with two companies of soldiers and 215 settlers , mostly convicts . In
August , there had arrived another 200 convicts and the population had grown to
more ...
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The British at Port Jackson were more surely in possession when painted by the
artists of the Malaspina expedition to the Pacific in March - April 1793 .
Government House , located at the crest of the hill , commands attention . The
wide road ...
The British at Port Jackson were more surely in possession when painted by the
artists of the Malaspina expedition to the Pacific in March - April 1793 .
Government House , located at the crest of the hill , commands attention . The
wide road ...
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For the earlier Spanish expedition under Malaspina which visited Port Jackson in
March 1793 , see O . H . K . Spate Paradise Found and Lost , ANU Press ,
Canberra , 1988 , pp . 177 – 80 . A . Mozley Moyal ( ed . ) , passim ; W . R .
Browne ...
For the earlier Spanish expedition under Malaspina which visited Port Jackson in
March 1793 , see O . H . K . Spate Paradise Found and Lost , ANU Press ,
Canberra , 1988 , pp . 177 – 80 . A . Mozley Moyal ( ed . ) , passim ; W . R .
Browne ...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia: 1770-1860, possessions Volume 2 of The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Jan Kociumbas |
| Editor | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Aug 2010 |
| ISBN | 0195546105, 9780195546101 |
| Length | 397 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Comparative Religion |
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