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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Unlike the convict colonies the Irish were at the most only one in fifteen and the
number of Catholics so low (approximately one thousand out of fifteen thousand)
that the society could give off the air of the Protestant stamp of mind: industry, ...
Unlike the convict colonies the Irish were at the most only one in fifteen and the
number of Catholics so low (approximately one thousand out of fifteen thousand)
that the society could give off the air of the Protestant stamp of mind: industry, ...
Page 408
The church became a social centre, a gathering place for those interested in the
dress fashions of the day, and a place where people were seated strictly
according to their rank in society. The sermon was like a leading article in a
newspaper ...
The church became a social centre, a gathering place for those interested in the
dress fashions of the day, and a place where people were seated strictly
according to their rank in society. The sermon was like a leading article in a
newspaper ...
Page 474
... 171, 183-4, 311-12,413 cedar cutters, 257 cemeteries, 470 Channing, W. E.,
155 chartists: and the constitution, 196; John Frost, 212-13; as a threat to
foundations of society, 250 ; and Sydney council elections, 191; aims, 193, 320,
380, 385; ...
... 171, 183-4, 311-12,413 cedar cutters, 257 cemeteries, 470 Channing, W. E.,
155 chartists: and the constitution, 196; John Frost, 212-13; as a threat to
foundations of society, 250 ; and Sydney council elections, 191; aims, 193, 320,
380, 385; ...
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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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