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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Charles Manning Hope Clark. 6 A COLONIAL BOURGEOISIE Ο NE NIGHT EARLY IN 1855 members of the Government House social set were dancing gaily at a ball five miles from the city of Melbourne . In the middle of the laughter and the merriment ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. 6 A COLONIAL BOURGEOISIE Ο NE NIGHT EARLY IN 1855 members of the Government House social set were dancing gaily at a ball five miles from the city of Melbourne . In the middle of the laughter and the merriment ...
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... colonial bourgeoisie was bound by more than ties of sentiment to the mother country . The British provided the ... colonial bourgeois . Both the colonies and the mother country were contributing to that spread of British commerce over ...
... colonial bourgeoisie was bound by more than ties of sentiment to the mother country . The British provided the ... colonial bourgeois . Both the colonies and the mother country were contributing to that spread of British commerce over ...
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... colonial bourgeoisie was just as skilful as their counterparts in England in their mastery of the mob . In Melbourne on election day , 23 September 1856 , the same uproar in the streets preceded the victory of the bourgeois candidates ...
... colonial bourgeoisie was just as skilful as their counterparts in England in their mastery of the mob . In Melbourne on election day , 23 September 1856 , the same uproar in the streets preceded the victory of the bourgeois candidates ...
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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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