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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migrants of good moral character and domestic habits so that they would have
sufficient reliable workers to provide for the proper care of their sheep and cattle.
87 To increase the number of immigrants of good moral character and
industrious ...
migrants of good moral character and domestic habits so that they would have
sufficient reliable workers to provide for the proper care of their sheep and cattle.
87 To increase the number of immigrants of good moral character and
industrious ...
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In the first eight years of assisted immigration the behaviour of recent immigrants
had fallen far short of the expectations of the pious and the profit-mongers of
Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth. Boatloads of prostitutes, it was said, were let
...
In the first eight years of assisted immigration the behaviour of recent immigrants
had fallen far short of the expectations of the pious and the profit-mongers of
Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth. Boatloads of prostitutes, it was said, were let
...
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... 230; see also Australasian Record and Emigration Journal Southern Australian
(Adelaide) : faction fights between Hindmarsh and officers, 57; begins publication
, 57; immigrants' rights to have institutions of native country in the colony, 71; ...
... 230; see also Australasian Record and Emigration Journal Southern Australian
(Adelaide) : faction fights between Hindmarsh and officers, 57; begins publication
, 57; immigrants' rights to have institutions of native country in the colony, 71; ...
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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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