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... frontier has been productive of individualism . Complex society is precipitated by the wilderness into a kind of ... frontier democracy , and he explains how individualism was stimulated by the material conditions of frontier life . The ...
... frontier has been productive of individualism . Complex society is precipitated by the wilderness into a kind of ... frontier democracy , and he explains how individualism was stimulated by the material conditions of frontier life . The ...
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... frontier , the nomad tribe was incorrigibly antisocial from the point of view of its employers , and from that of the government and constituted authority generally . ' Waltzing Matilda ' , the most popular of Australian folk - songs ...
... frontier , the nomad tribe was incorrigibly antisocial from the point of view of its employers , and from that of the government and constituted authority generally . ' Waltzing Matilda ' , the most popular of Australian folk - songs ...
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... frontier life , with- out consciously comparing it with that of the ' noble savage ' . But in 1845 another writer made the connection even more explicitly than in the above passage . He wrote : The greatest drawback to the life of an ...
... frontier life , with- out consciously comparing it with that of the ' noble savage ' . But in 1845 another writer made the connection even more explicitly than in the above passage . He wrote : The greatest drawback to the life of an ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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