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 7
On the Friendship one of the women to whom Arndell gave his clothes to wash
had the audacity apparently to lose no less than seven pairs of stockings
overboard . ' D . . . . dB . . . . . . s ' , thundered Clark , and threatened that if they
were to ...
On the Friendship one of the women to whom Arndell gave his clothes to wash
had the audacity apparently to lose no less than seven pairs of stockings
overboard . ' D . . . . dB . . . . . . s ' , thundered Clark , and threatened that if they
were to ...
Page 45
In October 1795 no less than fifty men managed to secrete themselves on board
the Endeavour leaving for India , a rash attempt which culminated in compulsory
disembarkation at Norfolk Island . 24 Daunting problems faced those convicts ...
In October 1795 no less than fifty men managed to secrete themselves on board
the Endeavour leaving for India , a rash attempt which culminated in compulsory
disembarkation at Norfolk Island . 24 Daunting problems faced those convicts ...
Page 121
As had happened so often before , French ambition stimulated the annexation of
the continent ' s remaining third . Where no British officer had ever surveyed the
southern coast between Cape Leeuwin and Shark Bay , no less than four French
...
As had happened so often before , French ambition stimulated the annexation of
the continent ' s remaining third . Where no British officer had ever surveyed the
southern coast between Cape Leeuwin and Shark Bay , no less than four French
...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
Copyright | |
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| 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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