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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As early as February of 1865 Berry and his fellow - liberals behind such organs of
opinion as the Observer in Collingwood , had come to the conclusion that
impecunious politicians were a positive curse in a democracy , for they took to
politics ...
As early as February of 1865 Berry and his fellow - liberals behind such organs of
opinion as the Observer in Collingwood , had come to the conclusion that
impecunious politicians were a positive curse in a democracy , for they took to
politics ...
Page 329
18 On 8 February 1879 the four members of the gang rode into Jerilderie , a
small country town some twenty miles on the New South Wales side of the
Murray River , captured the Post and Telegraph Office , cut the wires connecting
the town ...
18 On 8 February 1879 the four members of the gang rode into Jerilderie , a
small country town some twenty miles on the New South Wales side of the
Murray River , captured the Post and Telegraph Office , cut the wires connecting
the town ...
Page 408
IS EPILOGUE IS ' N FEBRUARY OF 1888 the mind of Sir Henry Parkes was
never far from death . His poor suffering wife Clarinda died on 2 February without
a word to him or a movement of the faintest kind . All she had managed to say
much ...
IS EPILOGUE IS ' N FEBRUARY OF 1888 the mind of Sir Henry Parkes was
never far from death . His poor suffering wife Clarinda died on 2 February without
a word to him or a movement of the faintest kind . All she had managed to say
much ...
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THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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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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