The Land of Contrarieties: British Attitudes to the Australian Colonies, 1828–1855 by F G Clarke

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to title page and right foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing to top and tail. Fading to spine.

The popular and official views of Australia, current in 19th-century Britain, are explored, describing the climate of opinion regarding immigration and investment expressed in lower-class street ballads and broadsides, the Entry Book of the Colonial Office, and the reports of parliamentary debates.

Whenever British advantage and colonial welfare clashed, the mother country ruthlessly favoured her advantage, appalling the Australian colonists and some Englishmen. (book flap)