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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... Hope Clark. society . He had begun to fear that the price of attempting to
preserve the old plantation society might be a social revolution in which not only
the private ownership of land would be threatened with destruction but the
institution of ...
... Hope Clark. society . He had begun to fear that the price of attempting to
preserve the old plantation society might be a social revolution in which not only
the private ownership of land would be threatened with destruction but the
institution of ...
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2 GLORY , FOLLY AND CHANCE ETWEEN NOVEMBER 1859 and January
1860 a committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria ( later the Royal
Society ) inquired into the practicability of fitting out an expedition for traversing
the ...
2 GLORY , FOLLY AND CHANCE ETWEEN NOVEMBER 1859 and January
1860 a committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria ( later the Royal
Society ) inquired into the practicability of fitting out an expedition for traversing
the ...
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up in th were bes of solutiscussing souls roosted and clustered in every corner of
the city , and threatened to drag bourgeois society into the mire . ' Woe unto you ,
ye bourgeois of Melbourne , and you , ye squatters of Australia Felix ' , he cried ...
up in th were bes of solutiscussing souls roosted and clustered in every corner of
the city , and threatened to drag bourgeois society into the mire . ' Woe unto you ,
ye bourgeois of Melbourne , and you , ye squatters of Australia Felix ' , he cried ...
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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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