A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization 1824-1851. IIIThe third volume of Manning Clark's distinguished history takes the story of Australia to the momentous discovery of gold and the separation of Victoria from New South Wales. Up to this point the story is one of destruction as well as construction: the destruction of the Aborigines and the construction of an essentially English bourgeois society and the taming of an alien and seemingly sterile land along the coastal country. |
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Page 148
On 5 December, when this demurrer had received the solemn consideration of
the three judges of the Supreme Court and been dismissed (the repetition of the
plea of autre fois acquit), proclamation of silence was made and Judge Burton ...
On 5 December, when this demurrer had received the solemn consideration of
the three judges of the Supreme Court and been dismissed (the repetition of the
plea of autre fois acquit), proclamation of silence was made and Judge Burton ...
Page 149
On 7 December the Executive Council unanimously agreed that the sentence of
the law should take effect. Three petitions for mercy were presented to Gipps. The
Sydney Herald went on vilifying the aborigines as that most degenerate, ...
On 7 December the Executive Council unanimously agreed that the sentence of
the law should take effect. Three petitions for mercy were presented to Gipps. The
Sydney Herald went on vilifying the aborigines as that most degenerate, ...
Page 293
At the end of December 1841 the price of beef and mutton was 4£~5d per pound;
by January 1843 it was 2i~3^d per pound, and by December of the same year i-
2d per pound. Wheat prices also tumbled from 5~6s a bushel in December 1841
...
At the end of December 1841 the price of beef and mutton was 4£~5d per pound;
by January 1843 it was 2i~3^d per pound, and by December of the same year i-
2d per pound. Wheat prices also tumbled from 5~6s a bushel in December 1841
...
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Contents
another province for britains gentry | 19 |
Charles Harpur and Jackey Jackey frontispiece | 32 |
a british province with a laudable purpose | 42 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization 1824-1851. III Volume 3 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 3 of A History of Australia: The Beginning of an Australian Civilization. 1824-1851. III, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
| Length | 491 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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