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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Late in February 1788 Lieutenant Philip Gidley King had arrived from Port Jackson with twenty - three prospective settlers . Searching for an anchorage around the rocky and dangerous coast , by 6 March they ...
Late in February 1788 Lieutenant Philip Gidley King had arrived from Port Jackson with twenty - three prospective settlers . Searching for an anchorage around the rocky and dangerous coast , by 6 March they ...
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She bore eight sons and two daughters between her marriage in 1824 and her early death in March 1840.17 The women were to produce children as property and to prepare them for the formal education which turned the sons into knowledgeable ...
She bore eight sons and two daughters between her marriage in 1824 and her early death in March 1840.17 The women were to produce children as property and to prepare them for the formal education which turned the sons into knowledgeable ...
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William Bradley , Part of the Reef in Sydney Bay , Norfolk Island , on which the Sirius was wreck'd 19 March 1790 , William Bradley A Voyage to New South Wales The Journal of William Bradley RN of HMS Sirius 1786–1792 .
William Bradley , Part of the Reef in Sydney Bay , Norfolk Island , on which the Sirius was wreck'd 19 March 1790 , William Bradley A Voyage to New South Wales The Journal of William Bradley RN of HMS Sirius 1786–1792 .
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Male Convict Experience 17881804 | 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 |
| ISBN | 0195546105, 9780195546101 |
| Length | 397 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Comparative Religion |
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