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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... persons from proceeding thither and digging for the gold would have been quite impos- sible ' . He decided to try a ... person should dig for it or disturb the soil until he had been duly authorized by Her Majesty's government . The ...
... persons from proceeding thither and digging for the gold would have been quite impos- sible ' . He decided to try a ... person should dig for it or disturb the soil until he had been duly authorized by Her Majesty's government . The ...
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... person in the streets was either going to the diggings or talking of it . Within a few weeks shipping agents were ... persons had left for the gold- fields than was expected . In his mind this was sufficient to show that there were ...
... person in the streets was either going to the diggings or talking of it . Within a few weeks shipping agents were ... persons had left for the gold- fields than was expected . In his mind this was sufficient to show that there were ...
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... persons charged with certain felonies and the punishment of those by whom they were harboured . Within a month of the passing of that act Gilbert was shot dead near Binalong on 13 May 1865. The respectable offered prayers of praise and ...
... persons charged with certain felonies and the punishment of those by whom they were harboured . Within a month of the passing of that act Gilbert was shot dead near Binalong on 13 May 1865. The respectable offered prayers of praise and ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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