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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... February 1879 the four members of the gang rode into Jerilderie , a small country town some twenty miles on the New ... February 1879 ; S.M.H. , 12 , 13 February 1879 ; Pastoral Times , 15 February 1879 ; personal visit to Jerilderie ...
... February 1879 the four members of the gang rode into Jerilderie , a small country town some twenty miles on the New ... February 1879 ; S.M.H. , 12 , 13 February 1879 ; Pastoral Times , 15 February 1879 ; personal visit to Jerilderie ...
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... February 1885 , people went mad in the streets and ran hot with their cries for revenge . Gordon had gone ' brimful with Christ ' into one of those lands the Protestants sang about in their churches - one of those ' heathen lands afar ...
... February 1885 , people went mad in the streets and ran hot with their cries for revenge . Gordon had gone ' brimful with Christ ' into one of those lands the Protestants sang about in their churches - one of those ' heathen lands afar ...
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... February without a word to him or a movement of the faintest kind . All she had managed to say much earlier was ... February 1888 , H. Parkes , Family Letters ; H. Parkes to J. Farnell , 6 February 1888 , ibid .; H. Parkes to J. R. ...
... February without a word to him or a movement of the faintest kind . All she had managed to say much earlier was ... February 1888 , H. Parkes , Family Letters ; H. Parkes to J. Farnell , 6 February 1888 , ibid .; H. Parkes to J. R. ...
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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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