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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Page 171
... ideal of sexual and domestic relations also reflected their underlying need for increased reproduction which was vital to the profitability of the free labour system . Their ideal of establishing a genteel , nuclear family life was ...
... ideal of sexual and domestic relations also reflected their underlying need for increased reproduction which was vital to the profitability of the free labour system . Their ideal of establishing a genteel , nuclear family life was ...
Page 263
... ideal of ' playing the game ' , this concept served a similar function , that of suggesting that the competitive individualism required by the economic system must never be taken too far . The idea of chivalrous self - sacrifice for an ...
... ideal of ' playing the game ' , this concept served a similar function , that of suggesting that the competitive individualism required by the economic system must never be taken too far . The idea of chivalrous self - sacrifice for an ...
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... ideal of progress , the colonial rulers considered that no experiment which benefited class , nation or race was too daring or too difficult to implement . While they congratulated themselves that the sight of men in clanking chains no ...
... ideal of progress , the colonial rulers considered that no experiment which benefited class , nation or race was too daring or too difficult to implement . While they congratulated themselves that the sight of men in clanking chains no ...
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Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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