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 165
25 Masters were asking for an increased number of soldiers and police to aid
them in these tasks from 1819 . By 1828 in New South Wales the ratio of police to
population was 1 : 44 in Sydney and 1 : 96 in the colony overall , a very high rate
...
25 Masters were asking for an increased number of soldiers and police to aid
them in these tasks from 1819 . By 1828 in New South Wales the ratio of police to
population was 1 : 44 in Sydney and 1 : 96 in the colony overall , a very high rate
...
Page 308
This was so especially on the crowded Victorian goldfields where authoritarian
police methods were adopted to enforce the licensing system and detect
defaulters . The proposal to raise the monthly licence to £3 caused agitation on
the Forest ...
This was so especially on the crowded Victorian goldfields where authoritarian
police methods were adopted to enforce the licensing system and detect
defaulters . The proposal to raise the monthly licence to £3 caused agitation on
the Forest ...
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199 and NSW LC V & P , 1835 , Final Report of the Committee on Police and
Gaols ( Minutes of Evidence ) p . 324 . See also David Neal , ' Free Society ,
Penal Colony , Slave Society , Prison ? ' HS , Vol . 22 , 89 ( October 1987 ) , p .
513 .
199 and NSW LC V & P , 1835 , Final Report of the Committee on Police and
Gaols ( Minutes of Evidence ) p . 324 . See also David Neal , ' Free Society ,
Penal Colony , Slave Society , Prison ? ' HS , Vol . 22 , 89 ( October 1987 ) , p .
513 .
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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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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