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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... English friends to obtain their rights . He concluded , to loud cheers , by taking the liberty of reminding their friends the English that if they submitted to the poll - tax , they were not worthy of that glorious English nation which ...
... English friends to obtain their rights . He concluded , to loud cheers , by taking the liberty of reminding their friends the English that if they submitted to the poll - tax , they were not worthy of that glorious English nation which ...
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... English novels . She papered the walls of their home in the English way . She made dresses copied from the latest English fashions . This slavish dependence on English fashions sometimes led to quite comical results . Her sister once ...
... English novels . She papered the walls of their home in the English way . She made dresses copied from the latest English fashions . This slavish dependence on English fashions sometimes led to quite comical results . Her sister once ...
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... English law - court ; both taught their children that the police were the paid hirelings of English landlords who had robbed Irishmen of their rightful inheritance on the land . After the death of ' Red ' Kelly at Avenel in 1866 , the ...
... English law - court ; both taught their children that the police were the paid hirelings of English landlords who had robbed Irishmen of their rightful inheritance on the land . After the death of ' Red ' Kelly at Avenel in 1866 , 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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