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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... white man's society , only to find to their mortification that the boy spurned such a gift from his father's murderer.24 On 21 June 1834 Stirling at long last reached King George's Sound after a journey of thirty - two weeks . Although ...
... white man's society , only to find to their mortification that the boy spurned such a gift from his father's murderer.24 On 21 June 1834 Stirling at long last reached King George's Sound after a journey of thirty - two weeks . Although ...
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... white man in New South Wales , just as similar events forced the white man ... man's right to the land as they were of their own existence . As they saw it ... white man did for the protection , support and improvement of the aborigines ...
... white man in New South Wales , just as similar events forced the white man ... man's right to the land as they were of their own existence . As they saw it ... white man did for the protection , support and improvement of the aborigines ...
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... white man's ways and partly because the aborigines pre- ferred their own erratic liberty to what the white man offered . As a symbol of the new order in Western Australia , Governor Fitzgerald in April 1849 changed the office of ...
... white man's ways and partly because the aborigines pre- ferred their own erratic liberty to what the white man offered . As a symbol of the new order in Western Australia , Governor Fitzgerald in April 1849 changed the office of ...
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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