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The Other Rebellion
- Attacking Ignorance and Vice on the Ballarat Goldfield
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Other Rebellion af Keith Moore, 9783631529546
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
172
ISBN-13:
9783631529546
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
3631529546
Udg. Dato:
14 dec 2004
Størrelse i cm:
15,0 x 20,9 x 1,4
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
14 dec 2004
Forfatter(e):
Paperback 2004
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The discovery of gold and the prospect of easily acquired riches destabilized society in the Australian colony of Victoria. At Ballarat, one of the colony’s principal goldfields, the collapse of previously adhered-to moral restraints and the presence of lawless behaviour was commonplace. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, a small but zealous body of clerics and schoolteachers endeavoured to counter the influence of immorality and crime by promoting virtue and honesty in children. As a social history, the book especially examines – to use the words of Reverend Thomas Hastie, an 1850s Buninyong preacher – ‘the humbler classes’. The Other Rebellion is different to other history books, and uniquely appealing.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
172
ISBN-13:
9783631529546
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
3631529546
Udg. Dato:
14 dec 2004
Størrelse i cm:
15,0 x 20,9 x 1,4
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
14 dec 2004
Forfatter(e):
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