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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... European origin pleased the eyes of the white observers . The conviction amongst the white population that the ... Europeans . The Europeans had also intro- duced them to three killers - a more destructive form of syphilis than was known ...
... European origin pleased the eyes of the white observers . The conviction amongst the white population that the ... Europeans . The Europeans had also intro- duced them to three killers - a more destructive form of syphilis than was known ...
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... Europeans . Thieves were fined and beaten with thirty stripes of the rattan . As Europeans paid strict regard to cleanliness , no heaps of fetid filthy stuff must be allowed to accumulate by the sides of tents , nor must such places be ...
... Europeans . Thieves were fined and beaten with thirty stripes of the rattan . As Europeans paid strict regard to cleanliness , no heaps of fetid filthy stuff must be allowed to accumulate by the sides of tents , nor must such places be ...
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... European has founded his new kingdom . ' But Buvelot's eyes were still clouded with the heavy atmosphere of Western Europe and so unable or not ready to see a landscape raw to the bright light of the sun . The time was at hand for ...
... European has founded his new kingdom . ' But Buvelot's eyes were still clouded with the heavy atmosphere of Western Europe and so unable or not ready to see a landscape raw to the bright light of the sun . The time was at hand for ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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