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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Page 153
... Irish gentleman , a member of the Protestant ascendancy , would know the glory of asserting the mastery of man over the Australian wilderness . As they proceeded up the bed of the Diamantina to the site of the present settlement of ...
... Irish gentleman , a member of the Protestant ascendancy , would know the glory of asserting the mastery of man over the Australian wilderness . As they proceeded up the bed of the Diamantina to the site of the present settlement of ...
Page 259
... Irish Catholics the end justified the means , and that anything was lawful if it helped to get rid of the oppressor . The Sydney Morning Herald , deploring the Irish tendency to look on traitors as patriots , and murderers as martyrs ...
... Irish Catholics the end justified the means , and that anything was lawful if it helped to get rid of the oppressor . The Sydney Morning Herald , deploring the Irish tendency to look on traitors as patriots , and murderers as martyrs ...
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... Irish Protestant towards the ' low Irish mob ' , lectured her on the duty of men to protect civilization against ' lawless persons ' . Ned , who had claimed to be miles away at the time , said he thought of him as one of those ...
... Irish Protestant towards the ' low Irish mob ' , lectured her on the duty of men to protect civilization against ' lawless persons ' . Ned , who had claimed to be miles away at the time , said he thought of him as one of those ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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