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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... Victoria's 33 000 diggers were at Castlemaine , the adult male population of Van Diemen's Land had been halved , and ... Victoria alone , 70 per cent of them paying their own passage . With emigrant arrivals in the new colony leaping ...
... Victoria's 33 000 diggers were at Castlemaine , the adult male population of Van Diemen's Land had been halved , and ... Victoria alone , 70 per cent of them paying their own passage . With emigrant arrivals in the new colony leaping ...
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... Victoria during the decade was even more spectacular , rising from just under 100 000 to 540 000 in 1861.20 These ... Victoria and New South Wales were in the grip of a commercial crisis , as the initial stimulus given to the local ...
... Victoria during the decade was even more spectacular , rising from just under 100 000 to 540 000 in 1861.20 These ... Victoria and New South Wales were in the grip of a commercial crisis , as the initial stimulus given to the local ...
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... Victorian Women and Insanity ' in A. Scull ( ed . ) , pp . 323-8 . For the special authority of surgeons on the ... Victoria 1850- 1860 ' , Historical Records of Australian Academy of Science , Vol . I , 2 ( 1967 ) . 25 K. Inglis ...
... Victorian Women and Insanity ' in A. Scull ( ed . ) , pp . 323-8 . For the special authority of surgeons on the ... Victoria 1850- 1860 ' , Historical Records of Australian Academy of Science , Vol . I , 2 ( 1967 ) . 25 K. Inglis ...
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Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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