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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... migrants who were exiles in the flesh but not in the heart from their native land . The question was , would the migrant wash away the stain left by convict society in the bush as well as in the towns of Sydney , Parrramatta , Newcastle ...
... migrants who were exiles in the flesh but not in the heart from their native land . The question was , would the migrant wash away the stain left by convict society in the bush as well as in the towns of Sydney , Parrramatta , Newcastle ...
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... migrants to participate in that great pulse of life . * By contrast the benevolent intentions of British governments in drafting rules and regulations to protect migrants to the Australian colonies from wicked and designing men and to ...
... migrants to participate in that great pulse of life . * By contrast the benevolent intentions of British governments in drafting rules and regulations to protect migrants to the Australian colonies from wicked and designing men and to ...
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... migrants and seamen died of typhus , and eighty more lay dying when the ship finally reached Sydney . On the Layton which sailed from Bristol on 27 September 1837 with three hundred on board , seventy of the 178 migrants died of measles ...
... migrants and seamen died of typhus , and eighty more lay dying when the ship finally reached Sydney . On the Layton which sailed from Bristol on 27 September 1837 with three hundred on board , seventy of the 178 migrants died of measles ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
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