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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Down at Portland , where the thermometer registered 112 ° by noon , particles of fire whirled down the streets and over the tops of the houses . The stench of burning goats , sheep and cattle wafted into the town , as men and women and ...
Down at Portland , where the thermometer registered 112 ° by noon , particles of fire whirled down the streets and over the tops of the houses . The stench of burning goats , sheep and cattle wafted into the town , as men and women and ...
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The day before , highway robbers had pirated £ 25 000 worth of gold dust , the day before that there was a murder in Bourke Street , and the day before that a murder in Geelong . ' Shooting in the streets , bushranging upon the roads ...
The day before , highway robbers had pirated £ 25 000 worth of gold dust , the day before that there was a murder in Bourke Street , and the day before that a murder in Geelong . ' Shooting in the streets , bushranging upon the roads ...
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The women pleaded with those in power to put an end to these enforced ' street dances ' , and to pay some attention to the ... The streets of the same city were infested with prostitutes to the great scandal of bourgeois morality .
The women pleaded with those in power to put an end to these enforced ' street dances ' , and to pay some attention to the ... The streets of the same city were infested with prostitutes to the great scandal of bourgeois morality .
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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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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