A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851

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Melbourne University Press, 1962 - Australia - 508 pages
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The 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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As the two ships were being tossed and buffeted by the huge swell from the south
in that vast stretch of sea between Cape Town and Leeuwin, the royal assent was
being given to an Act to provide for the government of 'divers of His Majesty's ...
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Speaker after speaker professed their loyalty to Her Majesty's throne and Her
Majesty's person. They solemnly and emphatically protested against the right
asserted by Her Majesty's Government of sending convicts to any British colony ...
Page 449
number of members of the legislative councils of both New South Wales and
Victoria, provided one-third was appointed by Her Majesty and two-thirds elected
by the inhabitants of each colony. The governor and council of New South Wales
 ...

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Contents

Charles Harpur and Jackey Jackey frontispiece
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A BRIT1SH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE
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Edward John Eyre
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Copyright

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TitleA History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851
A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357
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Volume 3 of The Earth Abideth Forever, 1851-1888, Charles Manning Hope Clark
AuthorCharles Manning Hope Clark
Editionreprint
PublisherMelbourne University Press, 1962
Original fromthe University of Virginia
Digitized8 Apr 2009
ISBN052284054X, 9780522840544
Length508 pages
  
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