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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... Australia as easily as a boy could pick plums out of a pudding . Very soon a mad rage for emigration to Australia seized all classes in the British Isles . Eight hundred people in Limerick sig- nified to the mayor their desire to go ...
... Australia as easily as a boy could pick plums out of a pudding . Very soon a mad rage for emigration to Australia seized all classes in the British Isles . Eight hundred people in Limerick sig- nified to the mayor their desire to go ...
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... Australia , in parts of South Australia , and in that red sand - plain country on the coast of Western Australia from Northampton to Carnarvon , a broken - down chimney - stack here , the shell of a house , a woody rose - bush and ...
... Australia , in parts of South Australia , and in that red sand - plain country on the coast of Western Australia from Northampton to Carnarvon , a broken - down chimney - stack here , the shell of a house , a woody rose - bush and ...
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... Australia , and in the suburbs , he had not found men touched by the image of Christ.57 While Giles was fighting against the ' dreadful regions ' of Australia , uproar had started again in the Australian bush . The selection acts ...
... Australia , and in the suburbs , he had not found men touched by the image of Christ.57 While Giles was fighting against the ' dreadful regions ' of Australia , uproar had started again in the Australian bush . The selection acts ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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