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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Indeed , his contempt for the convict women had been present even before he left
England and included a prurient interest in their sexuality which existed
comfortably beside the romantic posturing he reserved for his wife . Most of the
civil and ...
Indeed , his contempt for the convict women had been present even before he left
England and included a prurient interest in their sexuality which existed
comfortably beside the romantic posturing he reserved for his wife . Most of the
civil and ...
Page 125
A number of Spanish rams from the Royal flock accompanied him , as did Walter
Davidson , nephew of Sir Walter Farquhar , an influential British physician whom
Macarthur had fortuitously acquired as patron while in England . Davidson , too ...
A number of Spanish rams from the Royal flock accompanied him , as did Walter
Davidson , nephew of Sir Walter Farquhar , an influential British physician whom
Macarthur had fortuitously acquired as patron while in England . Davidson , too ...
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Governor Stirling was petitioned by the settlers to return to England and ask for
additional aid from the Colonial Office to save the colony from disaster and for an
enlarged military guard to hold off the Aboriginal raids . As reports of these ...
Governor Stirling was petitioned by the settlers to return to England and ask for
additional aid from the Colonial Office to save the colony from disaster and for an
enlarged military guard to hold off the Aboriginal raids . As reports of these ...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia: 1770-1860, possessions Volume 2 of The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Jan Kociumbas |
| Editor | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195546105, 9780195546101 |
| Length | 397 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Comparative Religion |
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