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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Page 43
21 Though the men enjoyed commercial opportunities denied to the women ,
their official punishments were brutal in the extreme . On the ... Others who
suffered the same punishment but survived , only did so by drinking their own
urine .
21 Though the men enjoyed commercial opportunities denied to the women ,
their official punishments were brutal in the extreme . On the ... Others who
suffered the same punishment but survived , only did so by drinking their own
urine .
Page 158
Employers in towns enjoyed similar magisterial power over their convict workers
and , with a magistrate close at hand , convict employees had fewer chances of
escaping punishment . In 1836 Sydney merchant and pastoralist , A. B. Spark ...
Employers in towns enjoyed similar magisterial power over their convict workers
and , with a magistrate close at hand , convict employees had fewer chances of
escaping punishment . In 1836 Sydney merchant and pastoralist , A. B. Spark ...
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Thus the creation of criminality and its punishment was a product of the same
processes of capital expansion which made strategic bases and naval stores of
such crucial importance to British investors in the 1780s . See further Chapter 2 ...
Thus the creation of criminality and its punishment was a product of the same
processes of capital expansion which made strategic bases and naval stores of
such crucial importance to British investors in the 1780s . See further Chapter 2 ...
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Contents
Male Convict Experience 17881804 | 32 |
Science and the South Pacific | 63 |
Free Trade | 91 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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