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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... barbarism . But when reports trickled through of what the Russian winter and aristocratic incompetence were doing to the flower of British manhood , the colonial press savaged the English governing classes . Class privilege , it was ...
... barbarism . But when reports trickled through of what the Russian winter and aristocratic incompetence were doing to the flower of British manhood , the colonial press savaged the English governing classes . Class privilege , it was ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. the aborigines to a perpetual state of barbarism in the countless centuries before the coming of the white man . In the cities belief in progress had not been diminished by the survival of barbarism in the ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. the aborigines to a perpetual state of barbarism in the countless centuries before the coming of the white man . In the cities belief in progress had not been diminished by the survival of barbarism in the ...
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... barbarism.57 The proximity of barbarism to civilization had a long history in Australia . When Dirk Hartog walked up that stony , forbidding cliff at Cape Inscription on Dirk Hartog Island on 25 October 1616 , the encounter between the ...
... barbarism.57 The proximity of barbarism to civilization had a long history in Australia . When Dirk Hartog walked up that stony , forbidding cliff at Cape Inscription on Dirk Hartog Island on 25 October 1616 , the encounter between the ...
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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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