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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Yet on the convict ships the women had little choice but to accept the sexual advances of male ' protectors ' who hopefully would fend off the advances and insults of the ship's officers and crew and provide some comforts and privileges ...
Yet on the convict ships the women had little choice but to accept the sexual advances of male ' protectors ' who hopefully would fend off the advances and insults of the ship's officers and crew and provide some comforts and privileges ...
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This ideal was centred around an aggressive , procreative sexuality now coming to be seen as normal rather than sinful ... Some medical writers were arguing that good health in males depended on regular sexual emissions ; others were ...
This ideal was centred around an aggressive , procreative sexuality now coming to be seen as normal rather than sinful ... Some medical writers were arguing that good health in males depended on regular sexual emissions ; others were ...
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Cleland , Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson were making the increasing sexual accessibility of the female poor a major theme in that new literary form , the novel . There was also a flourishing trade in pornographic literature ...
Cleland , Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson were making the increasing sexual accessibility of the female poor a major theme in that new literary form , the novel . There was also a flourishing trade in pornographic literature ...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Male Convict Experience 17881804 | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
Copyright | |
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