A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The third volume of Manning Clark's distinguished history takes the story of Australia to the momentous discovery of gold and the separation of Victoria from New South Wales. Up to this point the story is one of destruction as well as construction: the destruction of the Aborigines and the construction of an essentially English bourgeois society and the taming of an alien and seemingly sterile land along the coastal country. |
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Page 86
Not waiting for a reply, in October 1834 his son Edward set out from Launceston
in the Thistle, loaded with sheep, bullocks, ... (William Dutton had been whaling
in the bay since 1829) and the days on which a ship arrived from Launceston.
Not waiting for a reply, in October 1834 his son Edward set out from Launceston
in the Thistle, loaded with sheep, bullocks, ... (William Dutton had been whaling
in the bay since 1829) and the days on which a ship arrived from Launceston.
Page 361
There were stories of respectable inhabitants being subject to all sorts of
annoyances in the streets of Launceston and Hobart. One Saturday in September
1845 two ladies were walking down Charles Street in Launceston when one of
those ...
There were stories of respectable inhabitants being subject to all sorts of
annoyances in the streets of Launceston and Hobart. One Saturday in September
1845 two ladies were walking down Charles Street in Launceston when one of
those ...
Page 422
By contrast, Hobart, Launceston and the country districts of Van Diemen's Land
were communities in which four-fifths of the population were convicts, relatives of
convicts or descendants of convicts. They were also communities in which the ...
By contrast, Hobart, Launceston and the country districts of Van Diemen's Land
were communities in which four-fifths of the population were convicts, relatives of
convicts or descendants of convicts. They were also communities in which the ...
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Contents
Charles Harpur and Jackey Jackey frontispiece | 32 |
A BRIT1SH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
Edward John Eyre | 48 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 3 of Dummy reekstitel Volume 3 of A History of Australia: The Beginning of an Australian Civilization. 1824-1851, Manning Clark Volume 3 of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838, Charles Manning Hope Clark Volume 3 of The Beginnings of an Australian Civilization, 1824-1851, Charles Manning Hope Clark Volume 3 of The Earth Abideth Forever, 1851-1888, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 8 Apr 2009 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
| Length | 508 pages |
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