The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2Geoffrey Bolton The 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 volume traces 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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... labour needs were initially met more or less spontaneously by the destruction of subsistence agriculture and the dispossession of the British peasant from the land . This large - scale relocation of labour resources and shattering of ...
... labour needs were initially met more or less spontaneously by the destruction of subsistence agriculture and the dispossession of the British peasant from the land . This large - scale relocation of labour resources and shattering of ...
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... labour . Admittedly these workers had to be fed , clothed and housed , but they were on call night and day , defending his back - runs from Aborigines , and in his home performing the huge amount of domestic labour which his life ...
... labour . Admittedly these workers had to be fed , clothed and housed , but they were on call night and day , defending his back - runs from Aborigines , and in his home performing the huge amount of domestic labour which his life ...
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... labour camps , labour now would be focused more on punishment than production . Coal River , and even Port Mac- quarie which was founded in 1821 , were said to be too close to existing settlements to achieve the kind of isolation which ...
... labour camps , labour now would be focused more on punishment than production . Coal River , and even Port Mac- quarie which was founded in 1821 , were said to be too close to existing settlements to achieve the kind of isolation which ...
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Female Convict Experience 17881804 | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
Copyright | |
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