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 55
Hindmarsh proposed a toast to 'The King', which was drunk with three times three
, despite the presence of those stout republicans— Osmond Gillies and Charles
Mann. Then they all joined in the singing of the National Anthem, the first line of ...
Hindmarsh proposed a toast to 'The King', which was drunk with three times three
, despite the presence of those stout republicans— Osmond Gillies and Charles
Mann. Then they all joined in the singing of the National Anthem, the first line of ...
Page 57
Fisher countered by describing Hindmarsh as 'a man with a vulgar mind'. By
August, Hindmarsh came to the conclusion that four senior officers- Mann, Fisher,
Gouger and Brown— were such promoters of sedition that he wrote off yet again
to ...
Fisher countered by describing Hindmarsh as 'a man with a vulgar mind'. By
August, Hindmarsh came to the conclusion that four senior officers- Mann, Fisher,
Gouger and Brown— were such promoters of sedition that he wrote off yet again
to ...
Page 59
Faced with the voluminous heady correspondence in which Hindmarsh
beseeched His Lordship to tell him clearly what powers he possessed as
Governor, those men in black had no hesitation in deciding that Hindmarsh must
go. Stephen ...
Faced with the voluminous heady correspondence in which Hindmarsh
beseeched His Lordship to tell him clearly what powers he possessed as
Governor, those men in black had no hesitation in deciding that Hindmarsh must
go. Stephen ...
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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 |
Copyright | |
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