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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Prominent sheep - holders among the military officers at that time included Captain Joseph Foveaux , paymaster William Cox , commissary John Palmer , and quartermaster Thomas Laycock . By 1801 Reverend Samuel Marsden ...
Prominent sheep - holders among the military officers at that time included Captain Joseph Foveaux , paymaster William Cox , commissary John Palmer , and quartermaster Thomas Laycock . By 1801 Reverend Samuel Marsden ...
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Invaders descending onto the Liverpool Plains included numerous land - holders from the Hawkesbury and Hunter Valleys and a gigantic organization of British investors , called the Australian Agricultural Company .
Invaders descending onto the Liverpool Plains included numerous land - holders from the Hawkesbury and Hunter Valleys and a gigantic organization of British investors , called the Australian Agricultural Company .
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They included Charles Swanston , a former officer in the East India Company's army who had arrived in Hobart in 1829 and had already acquired large grants of land and a successful import and export business .
They included Charles Swanston , a former officer in the East India Company's army who had arrived in Hobart in 1829 and had already acquired large grants of land and a successful import and export business .
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Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Male Convict Experience 17881804 | 32 |
Science and the South Pacific | 63 |
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