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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It seemed to me that there were some groups of people to whom the egalitarian implications of Enlightenment theory had never been applied . I thus became concerned to examine the gap between rhetoric and reality in Enlightenment ideas .
It seemed to me that there were some groups of people to whom the egalitarian implications of Enlightenment theory had never been applied . I thus became concerned to examine the gap between rhetoric and reality in Enlightenment ideas .
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It was theories such as these which informed Dampier's denigration of the New Holland Aborigines in 1688— though he had ... the basis for scientific racial theory , Linnaeus's System of Nature reflected and developed these prejudices .
It was theories such as these which informed Dampier's denigration of the New Holland Aborigines in 1688— though he had ... the basis for scientific racial theory , Linnaeus's System of Nature reflected and developed these prejudices .
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These assumptions were reinforced by important developments in biological theory . Charles Darwin's fully worked theory of evolution would not be published till 1859 and T. H. Huxley's application of it , Evidence of Man's Place in ...
These assumptions were reinforced by important developments in biological theory . Charles Darwin's fully worked theory of evolution would not be published till 1859 and T. H. Huxley's application of it , Evidence of Man's Place in ...
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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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