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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Navdurdy society . He had begun to fear that the price of attempting to preserve
the old plantation society might be a social revolution in which not only the
private ownership of land would be threatened with destruction but the institution
of ...
Navdurdy society . He had begun to fear that the price of attempting to preserve
the old plantation society might be a social revolution in which not only the
private ownership of land would be threatened with destruction but the institution
of ...
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oo GLORY , FOLLY AND CHANCE B ETWEEN NOVEMBER 1859 and January
1860 a committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria ( later the Royal
Society ) inquired into the practicability of fitting out an expedition for traversing
the ...
oo GLORY , FOLLY AND CHANCE B ETWEEN NOVEMBER 1859 and January
1860 a committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria ( later the Royal
Society ) inquired into the practicability of fitting out an expedition for traversing
the ...
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roosted and clustered in every corner of the city , and threatened to drag
bourgeois society into the mire . ' Woe unto you , ye bourgeois of Melbourne , and
you , ye squatters of Australia Felix ' , he cried , because their grave - diggers
were ...
roosted and clustered in every corner of the city , and threatened to drag
bourgeois society into the mire . ' Woe unto you , ye bourgeois of Melbourne , and
you , ye squatters of Australia Felix ' , he cried , because their grave - diggers
were ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Charles Manning Hope Clark No preview available - 1962 |
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