Opposing Australia's first assisted immigrants, 1832-42 / Melanie Burkett.
Opposing Australia's first assisted immigrants, 1832-42 / Melanie Burkett.
Opposing Australia's first assisted immigrants, 1832-42 / Melanie Burkett.
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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H 2022/0218
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English
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Physical content
xix, 256 pages ; 22 cm.
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Collateral Damage in a Political Game -- 3. The Interwoven Trio: Immigration, Representative Government and Transportation -- 4. Land, Labour and the Economic Development of New South Wales -- 5. When Wealth Equals Worth -- 6. Impossible Standards: Gender Norms and the Rejectio...
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Date Published
[2021]
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Summary
This book unravels the paradoxical denigration of the first significant group of free (non-convict), working-class emigrants to the Australian colony of New South Wales in the 1830s. Though their labour was sorely needed, the colonial elite rejected the new arrivals on the grounds that they were lazy and immoral. These criticisms stemmed from polit...
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Opposing Australia's first assisted immigrants, 1832-42 / Melanie Burkett.
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Palgrave studies in migration history
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
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©2021
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H 2022/0218
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74VKaXLedX7O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaXLedX7O
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ISBN
3030849198
9783030849191
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325.24109940904
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991024436229802626
