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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... Melbourne Herald which pitched into his apologists , saying their addresses partook too much of the florid ... Melbourne was beginning to widen.11 At year's end on 17 December 1853 all the speakers at a meeting at Ballarat warned La ...
... Melbourne Herald which pitched into his apologists , saying their addresses partook too much of the florid ... Melbourne was beginning to widen.11 At year's end on 17 December 1853 all the speakers at a meeting at Ballarat warned La ...
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... Melbourne Club . Chance had placed him in authority over men who were likely ... Melbourne , respectable burghers spat out the words of horror , ' a disgraceful ... Herald ( Melbourne ) , 22 November 1854 ; for a different account of the ...
... Melbourne Club . Chance had placed him in authority over men who were likely ... Melbourne , respectable burghers spat out the words of horror , ' a disgraceful ... Herald ( Melbourne ) , 22 November 1854 ; for a different account of the ...
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... Melbourne where , with the help of the criminals , the madmen and the ... Melbourne was just as sharply divided as the population on the gold - fields . Law ... Herald thought rebellion had reared its ugly head because Victoria , unlike ...
... Melbourne where , with the help of the criminals , the madmen and the ... Melbourne was just as sharply divided as the population on the gold - fields . Law ... Herald thought rebellion had reared its ugly head because Victoria , unlike ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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