A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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. |
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the only solution to their desperate need for cheap labour lay in separation from
New South Wales , and the creation of a new colony or colonies . A meeting of
squatters at Drayton on the Darling Downs on 23 July 1850 prepared a petition to
...
the only solution to their desperate need for cheap labour lay in separation from
New South Wales , and the creation of a new colony or colonies . A meeting of
squatters at Drayton on the Darling Downs on 23 July 1850 prepared a petition to
...
Page 136
Incensed by the totally inadequate representation of the Northern Districts in the
first Legislative Assembly of New South Wales , and believing the rapid extension
of settlement of the north coast as far north as Cooktown , almost two thousand ...
Incensed by the totally inadequate representation of the Northern Districts in the
first Legislative Assembly of New South Wales , and believing the rapid extension
of settlement of the north coast as far north as Cooktown , almost two thousand ...
Page 339
Parkes could not let the occasion pass without ' riding the high horse ' on the
superiority of New South Wales over Victoria by pouring forth the vial of his witty
tongue at the expense of the Victorians . New South Wales , he reminded his ...
Parkes could not let the occasion pass without ' riding the high horse ' on the
superiority of New South Wales over Victoria by pouring forth the vial of his witty
tongue at the expense of the Victorians . New South Wales , he reminded his ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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