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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 74
Page 175
... asked him what the matter was . Then he drew the storekeeper's bill from his pocket , and handed it to her , and she too sat down and gazed into the fire . The Lands Department pestered him about his title to the land . When Mother was ...
... asked him what the matter was . Then he drew the storekeeper's bill from his pocket , and handed it to her , and she too sat down and gazed into the fire . The Lands Department pestered him about his title to the land . When Mother was ...
Page 195
... asked in anger in September 1864 why Western Australians should get cheap labour at the expense of the morals of the free in the rest of Australia . The South Australians asked by what right the Western Australians were entitled to make ...
... asked in anger in September 1864 why Western Australians should get cheap labour at the expense of the morals of the free in the rest of Australia . The South Australians asked by what right the Western Australians were entitled to make ...
Page 214
... asked one of those comely girls to rejoin the mission , where she could continue to lead that new life , following ... asked for in His name they would be given . They asked for boots , trousers and underclothing . One old lubra asked ...
... asked one of those comely girls to rejoin the mission , where she could continue to lead that new life , following ... asked for in His name they would be given . They asked for boots , trousers and underclothing . One old lubra asked ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aborigines Adam Lindsay Gordon Adelaide April Argus August Australian bush Australian colonies Ballarat barbarism Beechworth believed Bendigo Berry bourgeois bourgeoisie Brisbane British Bulletin Burke bushrangers camp Catholic Charles Chinese Christ Christian Church civilization convict Courier December democracy diggers district drunken earth electoral Empire England English eyes father February fields Geelong gentlemen gentry gold-fields heart Henry Lawson Henry Parkes Herald Herald Melbourne Hobart Hotham human Irish James Macarthur January John July June Kelly labour land larrikin Legislative Assembly Legislative Council licence living London Macarthur mankind March Marcus Clarke Melbourne moral Ned Kelly night November October parliament police political Protestant Queensland railway Robert O'Hara Burke savages schools September society South Australia South Wales squatters streets Sydney told town Trobe Victoria W. C. Wentworth wanted Wentworth Western Australia wild William woman women young