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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... voyage and a manual of instruction in his new home ( London , c . 1852 ) , pp . 1-16 ; Argus , 7 February 1851 ; ' Garryowen ' ( E. Finn ) , The Chronicles of Early Melbourne ( 2 vols , Melbourne , 1888 ) , vol . 1 , p . 444 ; G ...
... voyage and a manual of instruction in his new home ( London , c . 1852 ) , pp . 1-16 ; Argus , 7 February 1851 ; ' Garryowen ' ( E. Finn ) , The Chronicles of Early Melbourne ( 2 vols , Melbourne , 1888 ) , vol . 1 , p . 444 ; G ...
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... voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama.1 While the Chusan was riding in majesty on that magnificent sheet of water , Kerr Tommy , the aborigine who had found the quartz containing 1272 oz of gold on the property of Dr Kerr was drinking ...
... voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama.1 While the Chusan was riding in majesty on that magnificent sheet of water , Kerr Tommy , the aborigine who had found the quartz containing 1272 oz of gold on the property of Dr Kerr was drinking ...
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... voyage his brother had alienated her affections from him . In 1855 he had arrived in Melbourne to try his luck with the pick and shovel on the gold - fields , and ended at Eurunderee , still as free from the ' yellow stuff ' as a frog ...
... voyage his brother had alienated her affections from him . In 1855 he had arrived in Melbourne to try his luck with the pick and shovel on the gold - fields , and ended at Eurunderee , still as free from the ' yellow stuff ' as a frog ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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