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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... bourgeois Sydney what Wren was doing for bourgeois Melbourne - exposing the rottenness beneath the veneer of civilization , without holding out the prospect of better things to come . For Norton and for Wren life without God was indeed ...
... bourgeois Sydney what Wren was doing for bourgeois Melbourne - exposing the rottenness beneath the veneer of civilization , without holding out the prospect of better things to come . For Norton and for Wren life without God was indeed ...
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... bourgeois state . it had argued consistently that the institutions of the bourgeois state had been designed for the oppression of one class by another . From 1905 to 1909 the Socialist Party was prepared to collaborate with the members ...
... bourgeois state . it had argued consistently that the institutions of the bourgeois state had been designed for the oppression of one class by another . From 1905 to 1909 the Socialist Party was prepared to collaborate with the members ...
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... bourgeois party in fact , if not in name . Labor must learn the rules of the game in Australia , must learn that Australia was chained to bourgeois values by its past and by choice . The eccentrics and the persons of sensibility must ...
... bourgeois party in fact , if not in name . Labor must learn the rules of the game in Australia , must learn that Australia was chained to bourgeois values by its past and by choice . The eccentrics and the persons of sensibility must ...
Contents
A TIME OF TUMULT | 91 |
THE TABLETS OF THE | 201 |
EMBOURGEOISEMENT | 251 |
Copyright | |
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