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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... human nature and numbers were related to environmental or biological factors . Though as yet no reliable system had been developed by which human reproductive capacity could be compared or people's physical strength as labourers , a ...
... human nature and numbers were related to environmental or biological factors . Though as yet no reliable system had been developed by which human reproductive capacity could be compared or people's physical strength as labourers , a ...
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Geoffrey Bolton. together with information gathered from flints , tools , pottery and human remains , languages , fairy stories and myths , was dealing a death blow to clerical explanations of human origins and human behaviour . In ...
Geoffrey Bolton. together with information gathered from flints , tools , pottery and human remains , languages , fairy stories and myths , was dealing a death blow to clerical explanations of human origins and human behaviour . In ...
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... human beings order and make sense of space and time , thus constructing their own reality . In doing so , they are guided by permanent arbitrary structures of the human psyche . Therefore , more than merely patterned social behaviour ...
... human beings order and make sense of space and time , thus constructing their own reality . In doing so , they are guided by permanent arbitrary structures of the human psyche . Therefore , more than merely patterned social behaviour ...
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Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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