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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... round the offices of the Bathurst mail - coach to book a seat on the coach . Within twenty - four hours two hundred persons set out for the diggings , some of them on foot , with their tin pots and stocks of provisions slung across ...
... round the offices of the Bathurst mail - coach to book a seat on the coach . Within twenty - four hours two hundred persons set out for the diggings , some of them on foot , with their tin pots and stocks of provisions slung across ...
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... round the gold - fields like roaring lions seeking whom they might devour . 16 Just as the hot winds began to blow over the fields , human behaviour took a nasty turn . On the night of 6–7 October 1854 James Scobie and a man named ...
... round the gold - fields like roaring lions seeking whom they might devour . 16 Just as the hot winds began to blow over the fields , human behaviour took a nasty turn . On the night of 6–7 October 1854 James Scobie and a man named ...
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... round two or three Israelites or ' beardies ' who were preaching about the sufferings of the Jews . The mob began to push and squeeze the Israelites until they fled from the park . The mob then rushed a young temperance advocate and ...
... round two or three Israelites or ' beardies ' who were preaching about the sufferings of the Jews . The mob began to push and squeeze the Israelites until they fled from the park . The mob then rushed a young temperance advocate and ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
Copyright | |
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