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 48
Many were imprisoned as debtors in the old goal at Sydney, later described by
Bligh as 'a miserable place'. As the land granted to the emancipists and marines
began to be acquired by the officer-traders, so a custom developed of castigating
...
Many were imprisoned as debtors in the old goal at Sydney, later described by
Bligh as 'a miserable place'. As the land granted to the emancipists and marines
began to be acquired by the officer-traders, so a custom developed of castigating
...
Page 99
Notwithstanding the monopoly of the East India Company, local trading networks
rapidly developed which reached out from both colonies to enlarge the markets
being developed by British and American investors, westwards to India and the ...
Notwithstanding the monopoly of the East India Company, local trading networks
rapidly developed which reached out from both colonies to enlarge the markets
being developed by British and American investors, westwards to India and the ...
Page 101
The women were in great demand partly for sexual purposes and partly because
of their bushcraft and the special expertise they developed in hunting seals and
making boats. Especially in the early days of the trade, as in Tahiti, some of ...
The women were in great demand partly for sexual purposes and partly because
of their bushcraft and the special expertise they developed in hunting seals and
making boats. Especially in the early days of the trade, as in Tahiti, some of ...
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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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