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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... London the ghosts of the past haunted him . The gossips of Whitehall , and London society let him know they were talking behind his back about whether he looked like other ticket- of - leave men . The sins of the fathers were coming ...
... London the ghosts of the past haunted him . The gossips of Whitehall , and London society let him know they were talking behind his back about whether he looked like other ticket- of - leave men . The sins of the fathers were coming ...
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... London , Liverpool or Glasgow . Australians had all the virtues the bourgeoisie associated with the ownership of property.20 The bourgeoisie in Australia had their own special kind of terror : the yell of the ruffian had already been ...
... London , Liverpool or Glasgow . Australians had all the virtues the bourgeoisie associated with the ownership of property.20 The bourgeoisie in Australia had their own special kind of terror : the yell of the ruffian had already been ...
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... ( London , 1971 ) , p . 651 ; N. Barlow ( ed . ) , The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 ( London , 1958 ) ; C. Darwin , The Descent of Man ( London , 1879 ) ; Henrik Ibsen , Peer Gynt , trans . by Michael Meyer ( London , 1963 ) ...
... ( London , 1971 ) , p . 651 ; N. Barlow ( ed . ) , The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 ( London , 1958 ) ; C. Darwin , The Descent of Man ( London , 1879 ) ; Henrik Ibsen , Peer Gynt , trans . by Michael Meyer ( London , 1963 ) ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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