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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... Chinese landed at Robe . By 1857 there were 23 623 Chinese on the gold - fields of Victoria , and a total of 25 424 in the colony at large . The aborigines of the south east who had always lived in constant dread of each other , and in ...
... Chinese landed at Robe . By 1857 there were 23 623 Chinese on the gold - fields of Victoria , and a total of 25 424 in the colony at large . The aborigines of the south east who had always lived in constant dread of each other , and in ...
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... Chinese ; they were known as Australia's ' Leprous Agony ' . Ever since the riots against the Chinese on the Buckland River on 4 July 1857 and the violence at Lambing Flat between February and July of 1861 the resentment against the ...
... Chinese ; they were known as Australia's ' Leprous Agony ' . Ever since the riots against the Chinese on the Buckland River on 4 July 1857 and the violence at Lambing Flat between February and July of 1861 the resentment against the ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. the minister for mines to rescind the anti - Chinese legislation to stop a general stampede of the Chinese from the field . The bourgeoisie of the north had come out in favour of coloured labour , just as the ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. the minister for mines to rescind the anti - Chinese legislation to stop a general stampede of the Chinese from the field . The bourgeoisie of the north had come out in favour of coloured labour , just as the ...
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THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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