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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Page 107
... Adelaide . Ever since Samuel Stephens had bought him out of his idyllic farm on the Cygnet River in 1836 he had been no more capable than the aborigine of avoiding a life of degeneracy . After associating again with civilization he ...
... Adelaide . Ever since Samuel Stephens had bought him out of his idyllic farm on the Cygnet River in 1836 he had been no more capable than the aborigine of avoiding a life of degeneracy . After associating again with civilization he ...
Page 114
... Adelaide and Robe in South Australia . From there they made their way overland to the Victorian gold - fields . In Adelaide boys stood at the front windows of their houses to watch the horde of queerly dressed Orientals with their ...
... Adelaide and Robe in South Australia . From there they made their way overland to the Victorian gold - fields . In Adelaide boys stood at the front windows of their houses to watch the horde of queerly dressed Orientals with their ...
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... Adelaide about highway robbery , some maintained it could only be assumed , seeing the reputation South Australia enjoyed for virtue , that men were indulging in such foolishness , such wanton disregard for the laws of God and man just ...
... Adelaide about highway robbery , some maintained it could only be assumed , seeing the reputation South Australia enjoyed for virtue , that men were indulging in such foolishness , such wanton disregard for the laws of God and man just ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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