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 told the diggers the time had come for them to resist insult and indignity from
whatever quarter it might proceed . He had taken up their cause when he found it
impossible to have justice done to a policeman who had shot a digger . He told ...
He told the diggers the time had come for them to resist insult and indignity from
whatever quarter it might proceed . He had taken up their cause when he found it
impossible to have justice done to a policeman who had shot a digger . He told ...
Page 110
Soon after he arrived in Melbourne he told his admirers he was ' still an Irish
rebel to the backbone and to the spinal marrow ' . Modesty was not one of his
virtues . Privately he told his friends in Melbourne that in colonial society he felt
himself ...
Soon after he arrived in Melbourne he told his admirers he was ' still an Irish
rebel to the backbone and to the spinal marrow ' . Modesty was not one of his
virtues . Privately he told his friends in Melbourne that in colonial society he felt
himself ...
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I cannot for a moment entertain the idea of Science contradicting the Bible ' , the
Anglican bishop Charles Perry told a huge audience at the Princess Theatre in
1869 . He was just as sure , he told them , of the life , death and resurrection of
his ...
I cannot for a moment entertain the idea of Science contradicting the Bible ' , the
Anglican bishop Charles Perry told a huge audience at the Princess Theatre in
1869 . He was just as sure , he told them , of the life , death and resurrection of
his ...
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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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