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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... thousand 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 ...
... thousand 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 ...
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... thousand diggers marched into the Chinese district at Garibaldi Gully to expel the ' Plague of the country ' , like chaff before the wind , and escorted them off the diggings . " 18 On 31 January 1861 the diggers formed the Miners ...
... thousand diggers marched into the Chinese district at Garibaldi Gully to expel the ' Plague of the country ' , like chaff before the wind , and escorted them off the diggings . " 18 On 31 January 1861 the diggers formed the Miners ...
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... thousand merino sheep . In the good seasons of 1872 to 1875 he prospered . Fat sheep were driven to Broken Hill , from where they were trucked to Adelaide . Each year the wool was carted by bullock - dray to Wilcannia , from where it ...
... thousand merino sheep . In the good seasons of 1872 to 1875 he prospered . Fat sheep were driven to Broken Hill , from where they were trucked to Adelaide . Each year the wool was carted by bullock - dray to Wilcannia , from where it ...
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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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