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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in the colony was a government of gentlemen rather than upstarts , levellers and red republicans.31 On 23 January 1856 Henry Samuel Chapman proposed in the Legislative Council of Victoria that in all future elections to the Legislative ...
in the colony was a government of gentlemen rather than upstarts , levellers and red republicans.31 On 23 January 1856 Henry Samuel Chapman proposed in the Legislative Council of Victoria that in all future elections to the Legislative ...
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Legislative Assembly on 27 August 1857 , and an act to extend the right of voting which introduced manhood suffrage on 24 November ... were too timid to take on the reform of the composition or the powers of the Legislative Council .
Legislative Assembly on 27 August 1857 , and an act to extend the right of voting which introduced manhood suffrage on 24 November ... were too timid to take on the reform of the composition or the powers of the Legislative Council .
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Some also argued that it was the duty of a conservative to use the Legislative Council to stop these vulgarians destroying the foundations of society . ' If the people , in its sovereign pleasure , ' wrote the Sydney Morning Herald on ...
Some also argued that it was the duty of a conservative to use the Legislative Council to stop these vulgarians destroying the foundations of society . ' If the people , in its sovereign pleasure , ' wrote the Sydney Morning Herald on ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 4 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel Volume 4 of “A” History of Australia: “The” Earth Abideth for Ever : 1851 - 1888, Charles M. H. Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| 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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