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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Page 129
... thousand diggers marched into the Chinese district at Garibaldi Gully to expel the ' Plague of the country ' , like chaff before the wind , and escorted them off the diggings . 18 On 31 January 1861 the diggers formed the Miners ...
... thousand diggers marched into the Chinese district at Garibaldi Gully to expel the ' Plague of the country ' , like chaff before the wind , and escorted them off the diggings . 18 On 31 January 1861 the diggers formed the Miners ...
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... thousands of Chinese thronged the roads from Cooktown to the gold - fields on the Palmer River . By then it was estimated that there were five thousand Chinese on the fields and it was expected that the number would soon be doubled ...
... thousands of Chinese thronged the roads from Cooktown to the gold - fields on the Palmer River . By then it was estimated that there were five thousand Chinese on the fields and it was expected that the number would soon be doubled ...
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... thousand people turned up for the torchlight procession through the town . A fortnight later he was in Adelaide ... thousand people at Wallsend who shouted , ' Down with Parkes ' . In all his life , he told his wife , he had never ...
... thousand people turned up for the torchlight procession through the town . A fortnight later he was in Adelaide ... thousand people at Wallsend who shouted , ' Down with Parkes ' . In all his life , he told his wife , he had never ...
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THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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