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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Some six miles from Menindie , the assistants and the shearers on a station pinched the rum reserved for the camels , and carried on for days in a wild debauch . Again Mr Burke erupted into torrents of abuse against Landells ...
Some six miles from Menindie , the assistants and the shearers on a station pinched the rum reserved for the camels , and carried on for days in a wild debauch . Again Mr Burke erupted into torrents of abuse against Landells ...
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... Australia from the reputation given to it by Willem de Vlamingh in 1697 as an ' arid , barren and wild land ' . Some people in Perth warned Forrest that he was on a wild goose chase ' , but Forrest swept such pessimism aside .
... Australia from the reputation given to it by Willem de Vlamingh in 1697 as an ' arid , barren and wild land ' . Some people in Perth warned Forrest that he was on a wild goose chase ' , but Forrest swept such pessimism aside .
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As a prisoner of the Crown , Morgan had been flogged unmercifully until he took to the bush where he lived like a wild beast in the Wagga Wagga , Jerilderie and Deniliquin districts , terrorizing the ' swell folks ' in the big houses ...
As a prisoner of the Crown , Morgan had been flogged unmercifully until he took to the bush where he lived like a wild beast in the Wagga Wagga , Jerilderie and Deniliquin districts , terrorizing the ' swell folks ' in the big houses ...
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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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