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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Meanwhile , the French were using expeditions launched to search for La Pérouse as an opportunity to conduct further ... Appointed during the early years of the Revolution in France , the naturalist for this expedition , Jacques ...
Meanwhile , the French were using expeditions launched to search for La Pérouse as an opportunity to conduct further ... Appointed during the early years of the Revolution in France , the naturalist for this expedition , Jacques ...
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16 It followed that future state - funded and quasi - military expeditions to conquer the inland of this mysterious continent ... Cunningham had been a member of Oxley's first expedition and , in spite of the privations of that journey ...
16 It followed that future state - funded and quasi - military expeditions to conquer the inland of this mysterious continent ... Cunningham had been a member of Oxley's first expedition and , in spite of the privations of that journey ...
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33 E , J. Eyre , Journals of Expeditions of Discovery Into Central Australia . . . , ( 1st edn , Boone Press , London ... 35 C. Sturt , Journal of the Central Australian Expedition 1844-45 , edited by J. Waterhouse , Caliban , London ...
33 E , J. Eyre , Journals of Expeditions of Discovery Into Central Australia . . . , ( 1st edn , Boone Press , London ... 35 C. Sturt , Journal of the Central Australian Expedition 1844-45 , edited by J. Waterhouse , Caliban , London ...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Male Convict Experience 17881804 | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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