A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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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Some called for revenge against the foreigners who perpetrated such an outrage
and brought disgrace to the British name . On 5 December over three thousand
gathered in front of the City Court House in Swanston Street . Johnny Fawkner ...
Some called for revenge against the foreigners who perpetrated such an outrage
and brought disgrace to the British name . On 5 December over three thousand
gathered in front of the City Court House in Swanston Street . Johnny Fawkner ...
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had probably been instigated by reckless foreigners ; it was not the British way to
yield to the threat of physical violence . That summer , with the wind blowing so
hot some said it was coming fresh from the furnaces of Nebuchadnezzar , Henry
...
had probably been instigated by reckless foreigners ; it was not the British way to
yield to the threat of physical violence . That summer , with the wind blowing so
hot some said it was coming fresh from the furnaces of Nebuchadnezzar , Henry
...
Page 89
Their sons were to receive that ' sound learning ' and ' religious education ' ,
which would preserve them as British Australians , prepare them to take the
senior positions in church , state and the professions of the colony as distinct from
a ...
Their sons were to receive that ' sound learning ' and ' religious education ' ,
which would preserve them as British Australians , prepare them to take the
senior positions in church , state and the professions of the colony as distinct from
a ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2011 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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