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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... railway and canal construction , and by geologists who were attempting to classify rocks and other formations on the surface of the earth . By the time Charles Lyell published his Principles of Geology ( 1830-33 ) and Roderick Murchison ...
... railway and canal construction , and by geologists who were attempting to classify rocks and other formations on the surface of the earth . By the time Charles Lyell published his Principles of Geology ( 1830-33 ) and Roderick Murchison ...
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... fields to absorb the vast accumu- lation of capital that had grown out of the first phase of indus- trialization and which had only been partly absorbed by the 1 1 1 1 1 laying of local railway track ( some 6000 miles of 294.
... fields to absorb the vast accumu- lation of capital that had grown out of the first phase of indus- trialization and which had only been partly absorbed by the 1 1 1 1 1 laying of local railway track ( some 6000 miles of 294.
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Geoffrey Bolton. laying of local railway track ( some 6000 miles of it since 1830 ) . Moreover , by 1850 Britain was no ... railway - line began at Redfern , New South Wales , in March 1850 , but the colony at Swan River was continuing to ...
Geoffrey Bolton. laying of local railway track ( some 6000 miles of it since 1830 ) . Moreover , by 1850 Britain was no ... railway - line began at Redfern , New South Wales , in March 1850 , but the colony at Swan River was continuing to ...
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Female Convict Experience 17881804 | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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