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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... Ballarat , or to Kilmore and on to Bendigo , or from Geelong to Ballarat , the beasts of burden - the horse and the bullock - and human feet had trampled into a deep mud the black loam of those plains over which Hamilton Hume had ...
... Ballarat , or to Kilmore and on to Bendigo , or from Geelong to Ballarat , the beasts of burden - the horse and the bullock - and human feet had trampled into a deep mud the black loam of those plains over which Hamilton Hume had ...
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... Ballarat gold - field without threat or insult . ' Law and order had been restored . The shutters on the shops could now be removed and the flaps on the sly - grog tent tied back . 36 Captain Pasley thanked the soldiers for saving the ...
... Ballarat gold - field without threat or insult . ' Law and order had been restored . The shutters on the shops could now be removed and the flaps on the sly - grog tent tied back . 36 Captain Pasley thanked the soldiers for saving the ...
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... Ballarat Courier ( newspaper ) , 237 Ballarat Star ( newspaper ) , 335 Ballarat Times ( newspaper ) , 79 Balzac , Honoré de , 312 Band of Hope , 298 Banjo , the ( pen - name ) , see Paterson , An- drew Barton banks and banking , 58 ...
... Ballarat Courier ( newspaper ) , 237 Ballarat Star ( newspaper ) , 335 Ballarat Times ( newspaper ) , 79 Balzac , Honoré de , 312 Band of Hope , 298 Banjo , the ( pen - name ) , see Paterson , An- drew Barton banks and banking , 58 ...
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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