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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Even then they would remain the loyal ' sons of Britons ' , or what was later called ' Austral sons of British sires ' . They belonged both to the land of their adoption and the home of their ancestors . That was their complex fate.5 ...
Even then they would remain the loyal ' sons of Britons ' , or what was later called ' Austral sons of British sires ' . They belonged both to the land of their adoption and the home of their ancestors . That was their complex fate.5 ...
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Mr Burke was also much taken by a man everyone called Charley Gray , a general factotum at one of the local pubs , who had the manners of the drinker towards any member of the ' swell mob ' . Mr Burke , reckless as ever with those he ...
Mr Burke was also much taken by a man everyone called Charley Gray , a general factotum at one of the local pubs , who had the manners of the drinker towards any member of the ' swell mob ' . Mr Burke , reckless as ever with those he ...
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White men who professed and called themselves Christians were reduced the condition of asses by their neverending drunkenness . Natives who had offended their employers by their chronic aversion to labour were chained like so many dogs ...
White men who professed and called themselves Christians were reduced the condition of asses by their neverending drunkenness . Natives who had offended their employers by their chronic aversion to labour were chained like so many dogs ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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