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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Many reformers were genuinely concerned for the plight of exploited women , but
this ideal of sexual and domestic relations also reflected their underlying need for
increased reproduction which was vital to the profitability of the free labour ...
Many reformers were genuinely concerned for the plight of exploited women , but
this ideal of sexual and domestic relations also reflected their underlying need for
increased reproduction which was vital to the profitability of the free labour ...
Page 316
24 Products of the industrial age , children of the Enlightenment , devoted to the
ideal of progress , the colonial rulers considered that no experiment which
benefited class , nation or race was too daring or too difficult to implement . While
they ...
24 Products of the industrial age , children of the Enlightenment , devoted to the
ideal of progress , the colonial rulers considered that no experiment which
benefited class , nation or race was too daring or too difficult to implement . While
they ...
Page 317
... Acts . Copied by most colonies , these would apply a coercive science to G. A.
Robinson's pioneering ideal of gathering up survivors of the violence and
disease and concentrating them into camps , temporarily gazetted for the
purpose .
... Acts . Copied by most colonies , these would apply a coercive science to G. A.
Robinson's pioneering ideal of gathering up survivors of the violence and
disease and concentrating them into camps , temporarily gazetted for the
purpose .
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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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