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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... called themselves gentlemen , maligned the prison population , the people became angry . Every harangue by the leaguers against the morals of convicts strengthened the prejudice of employers against hiring ex - convicts . That did not ...
... called themselves gentlemen , maligned the prison population , the people became angry . Every harangue by the leaguers against the morals of convicts strengthened the prejudice of employers against hiring ex - convicts . That did not ...
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... called ' Austral sons of British sires ' . They belonged both to the land of their adoption and the home of their ancestors . That was their complex fate.5 Their schools also wore the scars of their past . The bourgeoisie professed a ...
... called ' Austral sons of British sires ' . They belonged both to the land of their adoption and the home of their ancestors . That was their complex fate.5 Their schools also wore the scars of their past . The bourgeoisie professed a ...
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... called a ' drama of pain ' into at least the possibility of more pleasure in this world . The corresponding reduction in human suffering weakened mankind's need for and dependence on a ' Com- forter ' , or any promise of compensation in ...
... called a ' drama of pain ' into at least the possibility of more pleasure in this world . The corresponding reduction in human suffering weakened mankind's need for and dependence on a ' Com- forter ' , or any promise of compensation in ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
Copyright | |
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