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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5 Not only the East India Company but the whole commercial system of which it
was a part was coming under attack . In his influential Wealth of Nations ,
published in 1776 , Adam Smith had produced a critique of the traditional
rationale which ...
5 Not only the East India Company but the whole commercial system of which it
was a part was coming under attack . In his influential Wealth of Nations ,
published in 1776 , Adam Smith had produced a critique of the traditional
rationale which ...
Page 166
31 In particular , critics of the assignment system focused on the fact that
transportation had produced a society where the disproportion of the sexes was
extremely high . In New South Wales throughout the 1820s and 1830s the
proportion of ...
31 In particular , critics of the assignment system focused on the fact that
transportation had produced a society where the disproportion of the sexes was
extremely high . In New South Wales throughout the 1820s and 1830s the
proportion of ...
Page 253
In 1841 she produced A Mother ' s Offering to Her Children , a book aimed at the
market for children ' s literature in the new , child - centred family . Dedicated to
little Reginald Gipps , the son of the Governor , the book contained a variety of ...
In 1841 she produced A Mother ' s Offering to Her Children , a book aimed at the
market for children ' s literature in the new , child - centred family . Dedicated to
little Reginald Gipps , the son of the Governor , the book contained a variety of ...
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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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