A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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Page 135
... become too wealthy , too powerful and too enlightened to need the leading strings which now held her . They predicted that New South Wales would become the grand centre of a new civilization in the South Seas . By contrast , others ...
... become too wealthy , too powerful and too enlightened to need the leading strings which now held her . They predicted that New South Wales would become the grand centre of a new civilization in the South Seas . By contrast , others ...
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... become country gentlemen , magistrates , and heads of families had remained ' squatters ' who had no home . Men who would have put down permanent roots in the country and become like those English oaks , not to be broken by those great ...
... become country gentlemen , magistrates , and heads of families had remained ' squatters ' who had no home . Men who would have put down permanent roots in the country and become like those English oaks , not to be broken by those great ...
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... become men of property . The Australian colonies which had begun as places for the punish- ment and reformation of British criminals were to become places where redundant workers from the British Isles would become both prosperous and ...
... become men of property . The Australian colonies which had begun as places for the punish- ment and reformation of British criminals were to become places where redundant workers from the British Isles would become both prosperous and ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
OVERSTRAITERS OVERLANDERS AND OTHERS DESCEND | 84 |
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