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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... workers . In contrast with the essentially anarchistic protest of the British Luddites or the colonial bushrangers , by the 1840s factory workers were beginning to develop a critique of liberal theories of society in which a clear ...
... workers . In contrast with the essentially anarchistic protest of the British Luddites or the colonial bushrangers , by the 1840s factory workers were beginning to develop a critique of liberal theories of society in which a clear ...
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... worker political action , for they were élitist in ideology with membership confined to skilled urban workers like tailors , coachmakers , saddlers and painters , along with some white - collar workers such as clerks . These groups ...
... worker political action , for they were élitist in ideology with membership confined to skilled urban workers like tailors , coachmakers , saddlers and painters , along with some white - collar workers such as clerks . These groups ...
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... workers were not welcome in Van Diemen's Land either , where the labour market had long since reached saturation point . Yet to the further detriment of its economy , some 8000 convict workers arrived between 1847 and 1850. Meanwhile ...
... workers were not welcome in Van Diemen's Land either , where the labour market had long since reached saturation point . Yet to the further detriment of its economy , some 8000 convict workers arrived between 1847 and 1850. Meanwhile ...
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Blueprint for Growth | 1 |
Thirty Acres | 32 |
Hunters and Collectors | 63 |
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