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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... December the storekeepers were so keen on the resumption of buying and selling that they resolved at a public meeting to use every constitutional means to restore tranquillity and good feeling . They appointed delegates to talk things ...
... December the storekeepers were so keen on the resumption of buying and selling that they resolved at a public meeting to use every constitutional means to restore tranquillity and good feeling . They appointed delegates to talk things ...
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... December the city had been in a fearful commotion as rumours swept through town that five hundred well - armed diggers were marching to Melbourne where , with the help of the criminals , the madmen and the drunkards , they proposed to ...
... December the city had been in a fearful commotion as rumours swept through town that five hundred well - armed diggers were marching to Melbourne where , with the help of the criminals , the madmen and the drunkards , they proposed to ...
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... December 1855 that Her Majesty had at long last given her assent to an act to confer a new constitution on the colony of New South Wales , Henry Parkes predicted that the days of gentry govern- ment were numbered , as were those of the ...
... December 1855 that Her Majesty had at long last given her assent to an act to confer a new constitution on the colony of New South Wales , Henry Parkes predicted that the days of gentry govern- ment were numbered , as were those of the ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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