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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The aim was to facilitate dispossession from the land and 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 ...
The aim was to facilitate dispossession from the land and 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 ...
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For the government however it was more economical to force the ex - convicts to do their own killing ; but convicts and exconvicts might use their guns to resist the authorities rather than the Aborigines .
For the government however it was more economical to force the ex - convicts to do their own killing ; but convicts and exconvicts might use their guns to resist the authorities rather than the Aborigines .
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It would be madness to attempt to stop that which we have not the physical 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 ...
It would be madness to attempt to stop that which we have not the physical 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 ...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Male Convict Experience 17881804 | 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 |
| ISBN | 0195546105, 9780195546101 |
| Length | 397 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Comparative Religion |
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