A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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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When those who had become so opulent and so respectable by the exploitation
of convict labour that they called ... Every harangue by the leaguers against the
morals of convicts strengthened the prejudice of employers against hiring ex ...
When those who had become so opulent and so respectable by the exploitation
of convict labour that they called ... Every harangue by the leaguers against the
morals of convicts strengthened the prejudice of employers against hiring ex ...
Page 33
In April of 1851 there were several hundred convicts available for hire to
employers , male as well as female ; by mid - 1852 there ... The advantage of
cheap convict labour had disappeared , without any corresponding increase in
free labour .
In April of 1851 there were several hundred convicts available for hire to
employers , male as well as female ; by mid - 1852 there ... The advantage of
cheap convict labour had disappeared , without any corresponding increase in
free labour .
Page 135
... as the use of coloured labour was repugnant to them and threatened that
which they cherished most , their British way of life , they had no choice but to use
cheap convict labour , the only way being their separation from New South Wales
.
... as the use of coloured labour was repugnant to them and threatened that
which they cherished most , their British way of life , they had no choice but to use
cheap convict labour , the only way being their separation from New South Wales
.
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| 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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