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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Page 83
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 whole new science of ethnology was being created , having as its
unstated basis ...
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 whole new science of ethnology was being created , having as its
unstated basis ...
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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 particular , the
seventeenth ...
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 particular , the
seventeenth ...
Page 365
Though Geertz's concept of culture has altered during the 1960s and 1970s , for
him culture , like utterance , is a system of encoded representations of a higher
and hidden language by which all human beings order and make sense of space
...
Though Geertz's concept of culture has altered during the 1960s and 1970s , for
him culture , like utterance , is a system of encoded representations of a higher
and hidden language by which all human beings order and make sense of space
...
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Contents
Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia: 1770-1860, possessions Volume 2 of The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Jan Kociumbas |
| Editor | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 4 Dec 2017 |
| ISBN | 0195546105, 9780195546101 |
| Length | 397 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Comparative Religion |
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