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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The crush was even greater when the Land Office was opened in Hamilton in Victoria in September 1862 to receive applications for selections under the Duffy Act . In June of that year Charles Gavan Duffy had found some satisfaction in ...
The crush was even greater when the Land Office was opened in Hamilton in Victoria in September 1862 to receive applications for selections under the Duffy Act . In June of that year Charles Gavan Duffy had found some satisfaction in ...
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When land was declared open for selection in the Inglewood district of Victoria in July 1865 , the squatters in the district trained men to act as ' dummy ' selectors , and paid them £ 1 a day for their expenses .
When land was declared open for selection in the Inglewood district of Victoria in July 1865 , the squatters in the district trained men to act as ' dummy ' selectors , and paid them £ 1 a day for their expenses .
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The government was accused of declaring open for selection only second - class land of the most worthless description , totally unfit for agricultural purposes , in the salt - pan and scrub country around Robe and Guichen Bay .
The government was accused of declaring open for selection only second - class land of the most worthless description , totally unfit for agricultural purposes , in the salt - pan and scrub country around Robe and Guichen Bay .
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 4 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel Volume 4 of “A” History of Australia: “The” Earth Abideth for Ever : 1851 - 1888, Charles M. H. Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| 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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