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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... produce linen and canvas from the wild flax growing there . By 1791 the first samples were produced by male and female convicts , and in 1793 plans were made to kidnap two Maoris and bring them to the island to teach flax dressing . On ...
... produce linen and canvas from the wild flax growing there . By 1791 the first samples were produced by male and female convicts , and in 1793 plans were made to kidnap two Maoris and bring them to the island to teach flax dressing . On ...
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... produced sufficient food and other goods to satisfy its own immediate needs . Every society , the theorists agreed , must be like European ones , producing a surplus which could be made available for commercial exchange . Believing in ...
... produced sufficient food and other goods to satisfy its own immediate needs . Every society , the theorists agreed , must be like European ones , producing a surplus which could be made available for commercial exchange . Believing in ...
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... place where foodstuffs , clothing and other goods had been produced , now it was to be organized around the newly defined needs of the numerous children which every marriage was expected to produce . Though 170 THE OXFORD HISTORY OF ...
... place where foodstuffs , clothing and other goods had been produced , now it was to be organized around the newly defined needs of the numerous children which every marriage was expected to produce . Though 170 THE OXFORD HISTORY OF ...
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Female Convict Experience 17881804 | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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