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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Page 52
30 The spearing of the convicts around Sydney and Botany Bay continued until
the tribes in these areas were decimated by an epidemic of an imported disease
— whether smallpox or another is still debated vigorously - which attacked them ...
30 The spearing of the convicts around Sydney and Botany Bay continued until
the tribes in these areas were decimated by an epidemic of an imported disease
— whether smallpox or another is still debated vigorously - which attacked them ...
Page 100
... increasing the number of women and children left ' on the store ' . His
regulations regarding pay and labour conditions proved impossible to police ,
while indiscriminate killing of the seals also continued , the depletion of seal
numbers being ...
... increasing the number of women and children left ' on the store ' . His
regulations regarding pay and labour conditions proved impossible to police ,
while indiscriminate killing of the seals also continued , the depletion of seal
numbers being ...
Page 135
No mention was made of the Aboriginal people ; it continued to be assumed that
they had no prior claim upon the land . 21 The 1825 regulations marked the end
of land grants to emancipists and immigrants without capital and foreshadowed ...
No mention was made of the Aboriginal people ; it continued to be assumed that
they had no prior claim upon the land . 21 The 1825 regulations marked the end
of land grants to emancipists and immigrants without capital and foreshadowed ...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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