A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The 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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He hoped fervently , as he put it in February 1829 , that he would never again
have the painful duty of reporting abandoned crimes such as one man killing
another with a mattock . He was solicitous for the sick . He welcomed the arrival
of the ...
He hoped fervently , as he put it in February 1829 , that he would never again
have the painful duty of reporting abandoned crimes such as one man killing
another with a mattock . He was solicitous for the sick . He welcomed the arrival
of the ...
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He arrived early in February feeling himself to be in the hands of Providence ,
which did not let him down because he was able to sell six hundred of his eight
hundred sheep immediately at double the price he had paid for them . At the end
of ...
He arrived early in February feeling himself to be in the hands of Providence ,
which did not let him down because he was able to sell six hundred of his eight
hundred sheep immediately at double the price he had paid for them . At the end
of ...
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At a public meeting on 16 February 1842 , convened to petition the British
Government to confer on the inhabitants their birthrights as Englishmen , James
Macarthur maintained that they could safely leave it to the British Government to
work ...
At a public meeting on 16 February 1842 , convened to petition the British
Government to confer on the inhabitants their birthrights as Englishmen , James
Macarthur maintained that they could safely leave it to the British Government to
work ...
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Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 62 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851 Volume 3 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2011 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
| Length | 491 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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