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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... German gentleman , mounted the platform and told the multitude he and his hundred fellow - Germans were ready with the rifle or the sword to assist their English friends to obtain their rights . He concluded , to loud cheers , by taking ...
... German gentleman , mounted the platform and told the multitude he and his hundred fellow - Germans were ready with the rifle or the sword to assist their English friends to obtain their rights . He concluded , to loud cheers , by taking ...
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... German biblical critic- ism , which was up for discussion in England in the 1840s ; there had been those challenging words by David Friedrich Strauss in his Life of Jesus , translated into English by George Eliot in 1846 ; there were ...
... German biblical critic- ism , which was up for discussion in England in the 1840s ; there had been those challenging words by David Friedrich Strauss in his Life of Jesus , translated into English by George Eliot in 1846 ; there were ...
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... German in Berlin in 1877 , was reissued in London for the first time with the long title For the Term of His Natural Life in 1885 , in Dutch in 1886 , in New York in 1889 and in St Petersburg in 1903. It was also dramatized and later ...
... German in Berlin in 1877 , was reissued in London for the first time with the long title For the Term of His Natural Life in 1885 , in Dutch in 1886 , in New York in 1889 and in St Petersburg in 1903. It was also dramatized and later ...
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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