The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2Geoffrey Bolton The 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 volume traces 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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... force the former peasants to understand that in a cash economy they might use , eat and possess only those commodities for which they could pay . Resistance was heavily punished with liberal use of the death penalty . Whereas in 1688 ...
... force the former peasants to understand that in a cash economy they might use , eat and possess only those commodities for which they could pay . Resistance was heavily punished with liberal use of the death penalty . Whereas in 1688 ...
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... force the ex - convicts to do their own killing ; but convicts and ex- convicts might use use their guns to resist the authorities rather than the Aborigines . As the Judge Advocate , Richard Atkins , wrote in 1805 , in any other ...
... force the ex - convicts to do their own killing ; but convicts and ex- convicts might use use their guns to resist the authorities rather than the Aborigines . As the Judge Advocate , Richard Atkins , wrote in 1805 , in any other ...
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... force to put down ' , Deas Thomson informed James Macarthur . In due course , Fitzroy decided to uphold the principle of the crown's right at common law to all deposits of gold in New South Wales , and on 23 May it was declared that no ...
... force to put down ' , Deas Thomson informed James Macarthur . In due course , Fitzroy decided to uphold the principle of the crown's right at common law to all deposits of gold in New South Wales , and on 23 May it was declared that no ...
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Female Convict Experience 17881804 | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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