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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... British investors were purchasing some 38 000 slaves annually . Two - thirds of the world's slave trade was transported in British ships.3 But slavery was currently coming under attack by evangelical reformers , who had inherited from ...
... British investors were purchasing some 38 000 slaves annually . Two - thirds of the world's slave trade was transported in British ships.3 But slavery was currently coming under attack by evangelical reformers , who had inherited from ...
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... British navy ' . In addition , he reported , its coastline and offshore islands were alive with seals , whose fur could be utilized as a southern component of the fur trade with Canton or , it was discovered by 1804 , sold in England ...
... British navy ' . In addition , he reported , its coastline and offshore islands were alive with seals , whose fur could be utilized as a southern component of the fur trade with Canton or , it was discovered by 1804 , sold in England ...
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... British rural society in microcosm , transplant- ing squires and parsons , their wives , children and servants in order to produce wool and further develop British commercial dominance in the Antipodes . Prominent among the investors in ...
... British rural society in microcosm , transplant- ing squires and parsons , their wives , children and servants in order to produce wool and further develop British commercial dominance in the Antipodes . Prominent among the investors in ...
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Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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