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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... Botany Bay they found a group of Aborigines , but in larger numbers than they expected . In the ensuing affray the convicts were soundly defeated , leaving one of their number dead in the field and another , a boy , severely wounded ...
... Botany Bay they found a group of Aborigines , but in larger numbers than they expected . In the ensuing affray the convicts were soundly defeated , leaving one of their number dead in the field and another , a boy , severely wounded ...
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... Botany Bay on 21 April 1770 Banks and his staff descended like locusts on the new species of plants found growing there , collecting seeds and taking cuttings which they dried on sails spread in the sun , for they soon used up all 200 ...
... Botany Bay on 21 April 1770 Banks and his staff descended like locusts on the new species of plants found growing there , collecting seeds and taking cuttings which they dried on sails spread in the sun , for they soon used up all 200 ...
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... Botany Bay ' , ( 1st edn 1786 ) , Sydney , 1943 , pp . 21-2 . See also G. Martin ( ed . ) , The Founding of Australia , Hale & Iremonger , Sydney , 1978 , passim ; M. Steven , Trades , Tactics and Territory , MUP , Carlton , 1983 , pp ...
... Botany Bay ' , ( 1st edn 1786 ) , Sydney , 1943 , pp . 21-2 . See also G. Martin ( ed . ) , The Founding of Australia , Hale & Iremonger , Sydney , 1978 , passim ; M. Steven , Trades , Tactics and Territory , MUP , Carlton , 1983 , pp ...
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Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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