A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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... first saw Australia in 1829. Now with the zeal he always displayed in the battle for Christian civilization over bush barbarism , he seized a pick - axe and dug with his usual wild frenzy the first hole to lay the foundations of the first ...
... first saw Australia in 1829. Now with the zeal he always displayed in the battle for Christian civilization over bush barbarism , he seized a pick - axe and dug with his usual wild frenzy the first hole to lay the foundations of the first ...
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... first Australian railway ran from Melbourne to Sandridge . A large company of ladies and gentlemen lined the whole southern side of Flinders Street to watch the departure of the first train , consisting of one second - class and two first ...
... first Australian railway ran from Melbourne to Sandridge . A large company of ladies and gentlemen lined the whole southern side of Flinders Street to watch the departure of the first train , consisting of one second - class and two first ...
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... first time in Melbourne in 1874 , in London in three volumes in the same year , in German in Berlin in 1877 , was reissued in London for the first time with the long title For the Term of His Natural Life in 1885 , in Dutch in 1886 , in ...
... first time in Melbourne in 1874 , in London in three volumes in the same year , in German in Berlin in 1877 , was reissued in London for the first time with the long title For the Term of His Natural Life in 1885 , in Dutch in 1886 , in ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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