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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... political context , turning reality upside down in order to conceal and justify the activities of these dominant groups . I wished to explore the darker side of Enlightenment theory , and in particular those debates which raged around ...
... political context , turning reality upside down in order to conceal and justify the activities of these dominant groups . I wished to explore the darker side of Enlightenment theory , and in particular those debates which raged around ...
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... political programme.9 In the colonies , newly arrived convicts and emigrants kept workers in touch with the new political theories and uprisings and with their repression . By the 1840s in Sydney , a factory system had developed where ...
... political programme.9 In the colonies , newly arrived convicts and emigrants kept workers in touch with the new political theories and uprisings and with their repression . By the 1840s in Sydney , a factory system had developed where ...
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... political representation , lent a more respect- able political veneer to the diggers ' fury at the arrest of three men for the burning of Bentley's hotel . After further harassment from the police , a group of some 500 diggers assembled ...
... political representation , lent a more respect- able political veneer to the diggers ' fury at the arrest of three men for the burning of Bentley's hotel . After further harassment from the police , a group of some 500 diggers assembled ...
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Female Convict Experience 17881804 | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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