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Page 119
... Rush did not so much change as intensify the existing tradition . Contemporaries believed that this was partly because to the basic stuff of police force personnel - particularly vicious and venal old convicts despised by their fellows ...
... Rush did not so much change as intensify the existing tradition . Contemporaries believed that this was partly because to the basic stuff of police force personnel - particularly vicious and venal old convicts despised by their fellows ...
Page 129
... Rush diversified the economy , and greatly strength- ened the middle class in Australia . Nearly all new Australians of the Gold Rush decade proceeded straight to the ' diggin's ' for a few months or years . There they were subjected to ...
... Rush diversified the economy , and greatly strength- ened the middle class in Australia . Nearly all new Australians of the Gold Rush decade proceeded straight to the ' diggin's ' for a few months or years . There they were subjected to ...
Page 142
... Rush in the early ' fifties when gold was obtained most easily . And many at least of these Gold Rush bush- rangers , like ' Melville ' , also conformed to the traditional pattern of ' chivalrous ' behaviour established in convict days ...
... Rush in the early ' fifties when gold was obtained most easily . And many at least of these Gold Rush bush- rangers , like ' Melville ' , also conformed to the traditional pattern of ' chivalrous ' behaviour established in convict days ...
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THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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