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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... gold - fields would turn the world upside - down : In California the blackguards were lynched . In Australia the blackguards would lynch the honnêtes gens ; Carlyle would see his aristocracy of rogues established in full glory , 13 In ...
... gold - fields would turn the world upside - down : In California the blackguards were lynched . In Australia the blackguards would lynch the honnêtes gens ; Carlyle would see his aristocracy of rogues established in full glory , 13 In ...
Page 125
... gold - fields some diggers professed their faith in human brotherhood , and testified that the bounteous gifts of Heaven belonged to the whole human race . 10 By 1860 the majority of diggers on the fields at Beechworth , Harrietville ...
... gold - fields some diggers professed their faith in human brotherhood , and testified that the bounteous gifts of Heaven belonged to the whole human race . 10 By 1860 the majority of diggers on the fields at Beechworth , Harrietville ...
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... fields . Some moved to the Otago field in the South Island of New Zealand ... gold - field . Within a year his family joined the rush to Pipeclay ... gold - fields continued to shape the national conscious- ness long after the diggings ...
... fields . Some moved to the Otago field in the South Island of New Zealand ... gold - field . Within a year his family joined the rush to Pipeclay ... gold - fields continued to shape the national conscious- ness long after the diggings ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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