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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To the further advantage of men of capital, the purchase price and the discount
were refundable after ten years, provided that over that period the purchaser had
maintained a reasonable number of convict labourers, the quantity being ...
To the further advantage of men of capital, the purchase price and the discount
were refundable after ten years, provided that over that period the purchaser had
maintained a reasonable number of convict labourers, the quantity being ...
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Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton. 7 'ALL THAT CAPITAL' South Australia and Port
Phillip 1835-1842 writing in England in 1833, political economist E. G. Wakefield
ruminated sadly over the fate of the Swan River settlement. His reflections on this,
...
Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton. 7 'ALL THAT CAPITAL' South Australia and Port
Phillip 1835-1842 writing in England in 1833, political economist E. G. Wakefield
ruminated sadly over the fate of the Swan River settlement. His reflections on this,
...
Page 187
In 1833 the area around St Vincent's Gulf was selected by a mixed group of
social reformers, colonizing theorists and investors in Britain as a suitable site to
test both their ideals and their capital. Calling themselves the South Australian ...
In 1833 the area around St Vincent's Gulf was selected by a mixed group of
social reformers, colonizing theorists and investors in Britain as a suitable site to
test both their ideals and their capital. Calling themselves the South Australian ...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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A. G. L. Shaw Aboriginal acres Angus & Robertson arrived Australian colonies B. H. Fletcher Bass Strait Bligh Botany Bay Britain British capital Clark Collins colony's convict labourers convict women culture developed Diemen's Land diggers E. P. Thompson early economic emancipists emigrants England especially European ex-convict expedition exploration Factory farming female Flinders gold Governor grant Hawkesbury Hobart HRNSW Hunter Hunter Valley ideal immigrants industry institutions James John Journal JRAHS L. E. Threlkeld liberal London Macarthur Macquarie male convicts Melbourne missionaries moral Norfolk Island NSW LC V&P officers Pacific Parramatta pastoral pastoralists Pemulwuy penal police political population Port Jackson Port Phillip Press problem punishment reformers Report reproduction savage schools scientific Select Committee servants settlement settlers sexual sheep ships social Society South Australia South Wales surgeon Swan River Sydney Tasmanian theorists theory trade Transportation Victoria voyage William workers
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia: 1770-1860, possessions Volume 2 of The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton |
| Editor | Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton |
| Contributor | Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195546105, 9780195546101 |
| Length | 426 pages |
| Subjects | › Australia History / Australia & New Zealand History / General Reference / General Religion / Comparative Religion |
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