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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... Macarthur had told him of the respect and gratitude of his fellow - countrymen , Wentworth bade them farewell with difficulty . In a voice often rendered quite inaudible by emotion , he told them how he trusted that the parting was only ...
... Macarthur had told him of the respect and gratitude of his fellow - countrymen , Wentworth bade them farewell with difficulty . In a voice often rendered quite inaudible by emotion , he told them how he trusted that the parting was only ...
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... Macarthur , Elizabeth Macarthur's ' my darling Edward ' , the man who had counselled the Colonial Office on how to keep levellers , chartists and the ' low Irish mob ' out of power when the birthrights of Englishmen were conferred on ...
... Macarthur , Elizabeth Macarthur's ' my darling Edward ' , the man who had counselled the Colonial Office on how to keep levellers , chartists and the ' low Irish mob ' out of power when the birthrights of Englishmen were conferred on ...
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... Macarthur family . He was known in the drawing - rooms of Sydney for his wit and charm , and by the people at large as a man who had never shown any sympathy with popular or liberal causes . He had words with John Bailey Darvall , an ...
... Macarthur family . He was known in the drawing - rooms of Sydney for his wit and charm , and by the people at large as a man who had never shown any sympathy with popular or liberal causes . He had words with John Bailey Darvall , an ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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