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 , pastoralists in New South Wales were threatening to revert to'slavery
' by importing their own labour from India , China and the Pacific.4 Little previous
thought had been given to a gold rush as a means of promoting either mineral ...
Meanwhile , pastoralists in New South Wales were threatening to revert to'slavery
' by importing their own labour from India , China and the Pacific.4 Little previous
thought had been given to a gold rush as a means of promoting either mineral ...
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to create interest in the presence of gold west of the Blue Mountains , were
equally unsuccessful . It was a similar story south of the Murray where as late as
January 1849 , when wouldbe diggers hurried to Amherst in the wake of
shepherd ...
to create interest in the presence of gold west of the Blue Mountains , were
equally unsuccessful . It was a similar story south of the Murray where as late as
January 1849 , when wouldbe diggers hurried to Amherst in the wake of
shepherd ...
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From the outset , the amount of money which the digger had to find in order to
purchase his licence and begin his search for gold was seen as unduly high .
This was so especially on the crowded Victorian goldfields where authoritarian
police ...
From the outset , the amount of money which the digger had to find in order to
purchase his licence and begin his search for gold was seen as unduly high .
This was so especially on the crowded Victorian goldfields where authoritarian
police ...
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Contents
Male Convict Experience 17881804 | 32 |
Science and the South Pacific | 63 |
Free Trade | 91 |
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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