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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Even then they would remain the loyal ' sons of Britons ' , or what was later called
' Austral sons of British sires ' . They belonged both to the land of their adoption
and the home of their ancestors . That was their complex fate . 5 Their schools ...
Even then they would remain the loyal ' sons of Britons ' , or what was later called
' Austral sons of British sires ' . They belonged both to the land of their adoption
and the home of their ancestors . That was their complex fate . 5 Their schools ...
Page 215
... in the cupboard when the son and heir became the father of a half - caste child
. Of love between white man and black woman , as distinct from lust or what
Australians called ' doing something about it ' , there was never so much as a ...
... in the cupboard when the son and heir became the father of a half - caste child
. Of love between white man and black woman , as distinct from lust or what
Australians called ' doing something about it ' , there was never so much as a ...
Page 294
The corresponding reduction in human suffering weakened mankind ' s need for
and dependence on a ' Comforter ' , or any promise of compensation in a future
life for all they were called on to endure in this world . Some were deeply ...
The corresponding reduction in human suffering weakened mankind ' s need for
and dependence on a ' Comforter ' , or any promise of compensation in a future
life for all they were called on to endure in this world . Some were deeply ...
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Contents
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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