A History of Australia, Volume 4This 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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... Chinese in eastern Australia out of a total population of 265 503.50 In the late 1840s a commercial crisis affected the tea trade in the Kwang- tung province of China aggravated by droughts , rice riots , inflation and an increase in ...
... Chinese in eastern Australia out of a total population of 265 503.50 In the late 1840s a commercial crisis affected the tea trade in the Kwang- tung province of China aggravated by droughts , rice riots , inflation and an increase in ...
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... Chinese landed at Robe . By 1857 there were 23 623 Chinese on the gold - fields of Victoria , and a total of 25 424 in the colony at large . The aborigines of the south east who had always lived in constant dread of each other , and in ...
... Chinese landed at Robe . By 1857 there were 23 623 Chinese on the gold - fields of Victoria , and a total of 25 424 in the colony at large . The aborigines of the south east who had always lived in constant dread of each other , and in ...
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... Chinese Immigration Restriction Act . At the same time rumour swept around that yet another ' plague of Mongolian locusts ' was on the way from Sydney to Lambing Flat . To add more fuel to these lurid flames those ' yellow bastards ...
... Chinese Immigration Restriction Act . At the same time rumour swept around that yet another ' plague of Mongolian locusts ' was on the way from Sydney to Lambing Flat . To add more fuel to these lurid flames those ' yellow bastards ...
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THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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