A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915The 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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... civilization in Australia in January 1788 there were probably 250 000 Aborigines in Australia of whom 2500 lived in Tasmania and the islands of Bass Strait . That year there were 1024 white inhabitants . By 1900 there were 66 950 ...
... civilization in Australia in January 1788 there were probably 250 000 Aborigines in Australia of whom 2500 lived in Tasmania and the islands of Bass Strait . That year there were 1024 white inhabitants . By 1900 there were 66 950 ...
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... civilization had forced the Aborigines to relinquish . Possessing few of the sturdy charac- teristics of their supplanters , they were being slowly pressed out of existence by the weight of civilization . To the dismay and puzzlement of ...
... civilization had forced the Aborigines to relinquish . Possessing few of the sturdy charac- teristics of their supplanters , they were being slowly pressed out of existence by the weight of civilization . To the dismay and puzzlement of ...
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... civilization . In the first twenty years of the twentieth century the number of Aborigines decreased from 66 950 in 1901 to 60 479 in 1921. The European was still puzzled as to why contact with European civilization corrupted and ...
... civilization . In the first twenty years of the twentieth century the number of Aborigines decreased from 66 950 in 1901 to 60 479 in 1921. The European was still puzzled as to why contact with European civilization corrupted and ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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