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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... Geelong . As in Macbeth , men stood not on their social rank in going , but went at once . Painters put on a first coat , and then vanished ; plasterers mixed their mortar , then threw away their trowels ; bricklayers on scaffolding ...
... Geelong . As in Macbeth , men stood not on their social rank in going , but went at once . Painters put on a first coat , and then vanished ; plasterers mixed their mortar , then threw away their trowels ; bricklayers on scaffolding ...
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... Geelong . Bourgeois parents in Melbourne and squatter parents in the Western District were complaining to him about the want of good schools in Mel- bourne and Geelong , and the expense entailed in sending their children to Europe , and ...
... Geelong . Bourgeois parents in Melbourne and squatter parents in the Western District were complaining to him about the want of good schools in Mel- bourne and Geelong , and the expense entailed in sending their children to Europe , and ...
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... Geelong ( Vic . ) , 16-17 , 121 , 124 Geelong Advertiser ( newspaper ) , 335 Geelong Church of England Grammar School , 88 , 290 Geelong People's Association , 15 George , Henry , 399 Germans in Australia , 62-4 , 70 Gibbon , Edward ...
... Geelong ( Vic . ) , 16-17 , 121 , 124 Geelong Advertiser ( newspaper ) , 335 Geelong Church of England Grammar School , 88 , 290 Geelong People's Association , 15 George , Henry , 399 Germans in Australia , 62-4 , 70 Gibbon , Edward ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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