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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 56
Page 11
... wrote of gold as a madness that tempted men to abandon their way of life and feverishly go in search of a cruel chimera . Sow crops , and reap a harvest ; dig for gold , and reap the whirlwind . So wrote the Launceston Examiner on 25 ...
... wrote of gold as a madness that tempted men to abandon their way of life and feverishly go in search of a cruel chimera . Sow crops , and reap a harvest ; dig for gold , and reap the whirlwind . So wrote the Launceston Examiner on 25 ...
Page 99
... wrote a series of articles on the union of the colonies , beginning on 2 April 1854. ' The people of Australia ' , he wrote on 26 May , ' are one people ; they speak one language ; their views are substantially the same ; they worship ...
... wrote a series of articles on the union of the colonies , beginning on 2 April 1854. ' The people of Australia ' , he wrote on 26 May , ' are one people ; they speak one language ; their views are substantially the same ; they worship ...
Page 321
... wrote the commission appointed by Governor F. N. Broome to inquire into the treatment of aboriginal native prisoners of the Crown in Western Australia in September 1884 , ' that throughout Australia the Aboriginal race is fast disap ...
... wrote the commission appointed by Governor F. N. Broome to inquire into the treatment of aboriginal native prisoners of the Crown in Western Australia in September 1884 , ' that throughout Australia the Aboriginal race is fast disap ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aborigines Adam Lindsay Gordon Adelaide April Argus August Australian bush Australian colonies Ballarat barbarism Beechworth believed Bendigo Berry bourgeois bourgeoisie Brisbane British Bulletin Burke bushrangers camp Catholic Charles Chinese Christ Christian Church civilization convict Courier December democracy diggers district drunken earth electoral Empire England English eyes father February fields Geelong gentlemen gentry gold-fields heart Henry Lawson Henry Parkes Herald Herald Melbourne Hobart Hotham human Irish James Macarthur January John July June Kelly labour land larrikin Legislative Assembly Legislative Council licence living London Macarthur mankind March Marcus Clarke Melbourne moral Ned Kelly night November October parliament police political Protestant Queensland railway Robert O'Hara Burke savages schools September society South Australia South Wales squatters streets Sydney told town Trobe Victoria W. C. Wentworth wanted Wentworth Western Australia wild William woman women young