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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In September Bathurst instructed Governor Brisbane to lose no time in
despatching the Surveyor- General, John Oxley, to report on the suitability of Port
Bowen, Port Curtis and Moreton Bay as sites for penal settlements where
convicts might ...
In September Bathurst instructed Governor Brisbane to lose no time in
despatching the Surveyor- General, John Oxley, to report on the suitability of Port
Bowen, Port Curtis and Moreton Bay as sites for penal settlements where
convicts might ...
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In September 1836 Sir Richard Bourke, having deemed it expedient to appoint a
civil and military force for the preservation of good order, named Captain William
Lonsdale to be police magistrate for the District of Port Phillip. He was to have ...
In September 1836 Sir Richard Bourke, having deemed it expedient to appoint a
civil and military force for the preservation of good order, named Captain William
Lonsdale to be police magistrate for the District of Port Phillip. He was to have ...
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THE COUNTIES OF NEW SOUTH WALES i. Definition of limits of settlement,
Sydney Gazette, 6 September 1826. 2. Definition of the Nineteen Counties,
Sydney Gazette, 17 October 1829. 3. Sir Thomas Mitchell's map of the Nineteen
Counties, ...
THE COUNTIES OF NEW SOUTH WALES i. Definition of limits of settlement,
Sydney Gazette, 6 September 1826. 2. Definition of the Nineteen Counties,
Sydney Gazette, 17 October 1829. 3. Sir Thomas Mitchell's map of the Nineteen
Counties, ...
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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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