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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Down at Portland , where the thermometer registered 112° by noon , particles of
fire whirled down the streets and over the tops of the houses . The stench of
burning goats , sheep and cattle wafted into the town , as men and women and ...
Down at Portland , where the thermometer registered 112° by noon , particles of
fire whirled down the streets and over the tops of the houses . The stench of
burning goats , sheep and cattle wafted into the town , as men and women and ...
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Shooting in the streets , bushranging upon the roads . . . robbery , insult , outrage
of every sort , shape and degree ' so astounded them that they wondered
whether Victoria was ' rushing upon an abyss ' . They were getting worse and
worse ...
Shooting in the streets , bushranging upon the roads . . . robbery , insult , outrage
of every sort , shape and degree ' so astounded them that they wondered
whether Victoria was ' rushing upon an abyss ' . They were getting worse and
worse ...
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24 He found in the streets of Melbourne a reflection of all the uproar in his own
soul . ... In Bourke Street at night sewing - girls and milliners ' apprentices , driven
by one of the great hungers of mankind , gaped at a group of up - country men ...
24 He found in the streets of Melbourne a reflection of all the uproar in his own
soul . ... In Bourke Street at night sewing - girls and milliners ' apprentices , driven
by one of the great hungers of mankind , gaped at a group of up - country men ...
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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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