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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He was therefore inviting the Legislative Councils of those colonies to draft new
constitutions and transmit them to the ... the Legislative Council on 20 May 1853
asked Wentworth to chair a select committee to draft a new constitution for the ...
He was therefore inviting the Legislative Councils of those colonies to draft new
constitutions and transmit them to the ... the Legislative Council on 20 May 1853
asked Wentworth to chair a select committee to draft a new constitution for the ...
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26 On 28 July 1853 Wentworth presented the report from the select committee to
prepare a constitution for the colony to the Legislative Council . In drafting the
report he had been influenced by many things . Ever since the news of the ...
26 On 28 July 1853 Wentworth presented the report from the select committee to
prepare a constitution for the colony to the Legislative Council . In drafting the
report he had been influenced by many things . Ever since the news of the ...
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He wanted a British , not a Yankee , constitution , because the latter was
contaminated by the degrading influences of democracy . He wanted to resist the
democratic current now setting in , stem it , and erect some bulwarks to keep
erect the ...
He wanted a British , not a Yankee , constitution , because the latter was
contaminated by the degrading influences of democracy . He wanted to resist the
democratic current now setting in , stem it , and erect some bulwarks to keep
erect the ...
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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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