The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2Geoffrey Bolton The 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 volume traces 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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Page 116
... economic self- interest and make their own rules because of the growing political strength of the industrial lobby in Britain and its attacks on the old mercantilist economic system . Men like Macarthur , for example , though obliged to ...
... economic self- interest and make their own rules because of the growing political strength of the industrial lobby in Britain and its attacks on the old mercantilist economic system . Men like Macarthur , for example , though obliged to ...
Page 117
... economic status to buying cheap and selling dear , they borrowed their political tactics and their justifying rhetoric from developing liberalism . Benthamite ideals provided them with both a political and economic rationale , not only ...
... economic status to buying cheap and selling dear , they borrowed their political tactics and their justifying rhetoric from developing liberalism . Benthamite ideals provided them with both a political and economic rationale , not only ...
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... economic analysis , tended to see the issue in the rebels ' own terms , that is , as a clash between the British state ( committed to public and peasant farming ) and nascent colonial private enterprise ( committed to economic growth ) ...
... economic analysis , tended to see the issue in the rebels ' own terms , that is , as a clash between the British state ( committed to public and peasant farming ) and nascent colonial private enterprise ( committed to economic growth ) ...
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Female Convict Experience 17881804 | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
Copyright | |
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