A History of Australia, Volume 2The second volume in a history of Australia which aims to highlight the hardship and trauma that occurred there during the establishment and development of white settlement. This volume chronicles New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) between 1822 and 1838. |
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Page 9
Some committed their crimes deliberately to promote their own personal
happiness, or material advancement. One woman convict in New South Wales
wrote to her lover far away in York in England passionately beseeching him to
commit a ...
Some committed their crimes deliberately to promote their own personal
happiness, or material advancement. One woman convict in New South Wales
wrote to her lover far away in York in England passionately beseeching him to
commit a ...
Page 319
When they calmly looked at the vast amount of crime amongst them, Burton had
said, could they feel otherwise than convinced that so lamentable a circumstance
must seriously retard the establishment in this colony of those free institutions ...
When they calmly looked at the vast amount of crime amongst them, Burton had
said, could they feel otherwise than convinced that so lamentable a circumstance
must seriously retard the establishment in this colony of those free institutions ...
Page 323
The immoderate use of spirits was another cause of the disorder and crime
prevalent in New South Wales, because it changed men fashioned in the divine
image into coarse and vulgar beasts. The book uncovered too a division in his
own ...
The immoderate use of spirits was another cause of the disorder and crime
prevalent in New South Wales, because it changed men fashioned in the divine
image into coarse and vulgar beasts. The book uncovered too a division in his
own ...
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Contents
A R K N | 17 |
T H E R ETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
T H E N ATI W E SON OF FE N DS GROSS LY | 61 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 2 A History of Australia, Manning Clark |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 20 Jul 2017 |
| ISBN | 052284166X, 9780522841664 |
| Length | 364 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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