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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... July a rumour spread like wildfire that a Chinaman had been seen committing an unnatural crime with one of the brute creation near the dwelling - place of a highly respectable married man . A female had witnessed this abomination . Here ...
... July a rumour spread like wildfire that a Chinaman had been seen committing an unnatural crime with one of the brute creation near the dwelling - place of a highly respectable married man . A female had witnessed this abomination . Here ...
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... July 1861 , a traditional day on the diggings for the airing of grievances and the settling of scores , there was another ' Roll up ' to demand the release of the prisoners . The police refused . The diggers attacked the camp to rescue ...
... July 1861 , a traditional day on the diggings for the airing of grievances and the settling of scores , there was another ' Roll up ' to demand the release of the prisoners . The police refused . The diggers attacked the camp to rescue ...
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... July 1862 , that here in Australia everything was ' anti- podean ' . In Europe there was enlightenment ; here there ... July 1862 ; S.M.H. , 24 July 1862 ; Argus , 24 September 1872 ; Pastoral Times , 3 January 1862 . Victorian ...
... July 1862 , that here in Australia everything was ' anti- podean ' . In Europe there was enlightenment ; here there ... July 1862 ; S.M.H. , 24 July 1862 ; Argus , 24 September 1872 ; Pastoral Times , 3 January 1862 . Victorian ...
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THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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