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 41
Flour was in very short supply ; iron handmills sent with the First Fleet had proved
useless , and no windmills had yet been constructed . Two master millers sent out
by the British authorities had proved unequal to the task . In February 1794 a ...
Flour was in very short supply ; iron handmills sent with the First Fleet had proved
useless , and no windmills had yet been constructed . Two master millers sent out
by the British authorities had proved unequal to the task . In February 1794 a ...
Page 92
... the sea , British interest in Pacific whaling had been growing with the decline of
the old Greenland fisheries . It was further quickened in 1788 – 89 when whale
merchant Samuel Enderby sent the Emilia , manned with experienced Nantucket
...
... the sea , British interest in Pacific whaling had been growing with the decline of
the old Greenland fisheries . It was further quickened in 1788 – 89 when whale
merchant Samuel Enderby sent the Emilia , manned with experienced Nantucket
...
Page 165
In the first four years of his sentence he received a total of 350 lashes and was
sent to Macquarie Harbour . In 1824 he was one of a group of convicts who
escaped from the penal settlement and sailed a boat to the Derwent River . For
the next ...
In the first four years of his sentence he received a total of 350 lashes and was
sent to Macquarie Harbour . In 1824 he was one of a group of convicts who
escaped from the penal settlement and sailed a boat to the Derwent River . For
the next ...
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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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