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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... until executed by them after attempting to take a young woman against her will . Convict and ex - convict outlaws working in the area at the time included Black Caesar , who by July 1794 had returned from Norfolk Island and taken ...
... until executed by them after attempting to take a young woman against her will . Convict and ex - convict outlaws working in the area at the time included Black Caesar , who by July 1794 had returned from Norfolk Island and taken ...
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Invaders descending onto the Liverpool Plains included numerous land - holders from the Hawkesbury and Hunter Valleys and a gigantic organization of British investors , called the Australian Agricultural Company .
Invaders descending onto the Liverpool Plains included numerous land - holders from the Hawkesbury and Hunter Valleys and a gigantic organization of British investors , called the Australian Agricultural Company .
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At Tempe , A. B. Spark's walls were weighted with over one hundred pictures that included Flemish and Italian works . By 1845 Charles Nicholson had begun to amass a huge collection of rare books , pictures , manuscripts and antiquities ...
At Tempe , A. B. Spark's walls were weighted with over one hundred pictures that included Flemish and Italian works . By 1845 Charles Nicholson had begun to amass a huge collection of rare books , pictures , manuscripts and antiquities ...
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Contents
Female Convict Experience 17881804 | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Science and the South Pacific | 63 |
Copyright | |
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