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 154
From 1815 the British began to remove workers from India to Mauritius , Malaysia
and Singapore , while convicts from Britain were sent to Bermuda from 1824 . 4 In
the Australian colonies the labour shortage was especially acute because of ...
From 1815 the British began to remove workers from India to Mauritius , Malaysia
and Singapore , while convicts from Britain were sent to Bermuda from 1824 . 4 In
the Australian colonies the labour shortage was especially acute because of ...
Page 157
9 All of these views about the need to incarcerate recalcitrant workers instead of
employing them as a captive labour force , were dramatically opposed to the
material interests of the employer in the eastern colonies . Here , because native
...
9 All of these views about the need to incarcerate recalcitrant workers instead of
employing them as a captive labour force , were dramatically opposed to the
material interests of the employer in the eastern colonies . Here , because native
...
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Such ideas were anathema to liberal reformers like Sir James Stephen , for
whom the free workers occupying the ' waste land ' of Australia were to be kept
white at all costs . As with Burton ' s judgement on Aboriginal law , Stephen ' s
thoughts ...
Such ideas were anathema to liberal reformers like Sir James Stephen , for
whom the free workers occupying the ' waste land ' of Australia were to be kept
white at all costs . As with Burton ' s judgement on Aboriginal law , Stephen ' s
thoughts ...
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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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