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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Page 47
Children tugged at their skirts and said , ' I want to go home ' , or asked that
disturbing question , ' Why doesn't Daddy come ? ' or quite simply ' Where is
Daddy ? ' On the south bank of that river , the buzz of life went on all day and
night , as ...
Children tugged at their skirts and said , ' I want to go home ' , or asked that
disturbing question , ' Why doesn't Daddy come ? ' or quite simply ' Where is
Daddy ? ' On the south bank of that river , the buzz of life went on all day and
night , as ...
Page 77
Captain Pasley was more convinced than ever , as he had put it first on the night
of 30 November , that ' very strong measures are necessary in this gold field , and
that sedition must be put down by force ' . Conciliatory measures would only do ...
Captain Pasley was more convinced than ever , as he had put it first on the night
of 30 November , that ' very strong measures are necessary in this gold field , and
that sedition must be put down by force ' . Conciliatory measures would only do ...
Page 335
On the night of 5 November four thousand of Ned's sympathizers together with
the opponents of capital punishment and men of the underworld , packed into the
Hippodrome , leaving an overflow of two thousand outside . They stamped their ...
On the night of 5 November four thousand of Ned's sympathizers together with
the opponents of capital punishment and men of the underworld , packed into the
Hippodrome , leaving an overflow of two thousand outside . They stamped their ...
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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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