A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
THAT BLOODY LICENCE TAX | 61 |
A COLONIAL BOURGEOISIE | 84 |
CHEERFUL AND CONFIDENT | 119 |
GLORY FOLLY AND CHANCE | 144 |
THE BUSH BARBARIANS | 165 |
THE CALM DOWN BEGINS | 220 |
COLONIAL DEMOCRATS | 240 |
THE KINGDOM OF NOTHINGNESS | 271 |
UPROAR IN THE BUSH | 319 |
THE EARTH ABIDETH FOR EVER | 357 |
EPILOGUE | 408 |
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