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... manners and mores of the city - dweller than the latter had on his . The tide turned somewhere between 1900 and 1918. Even today the tradition of the ' noble bushman ' is still very strong in both literature and folklore , but , at ...
... manners and mores of the city - dweller than the latter had on his . The tide turned somewhere between 1900 and 1918. Even today the tradition of the ' noble bushman ' is still very strong in both literature and folklore , but , at ...
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... manners and ideas , between the coastal cities and the hinterland . But the strength of outback influence is indicated by the very phrase used , in the first half of the nineteenth century , to describe Sydney roughs . These rowdy ...
... manners and ideas , between the coastal cities and the hinterland . But the strength of outback influence is indicated by the very phrase used , in the first half of the nineteenth century , to describe Sydney roughs . These rowdy ...
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... manners flow downwards from the higher classes , they must , in new countries , ascend from the lowest class . ' The universal validity of the statement may be queried , but hardly its appositeness to nineteenth - century Australia ...
... manners flow downwards from the higher classes , they must , in new countries , ascend from the lowest class . ' The universal validity of the statement may be queried , but hardly its appositeness to nineteenth - century Australia ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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