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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... March took up 564 acres in the Broughton area some thirty miles from Clare . March , a one - time farm labourer in Norfolk , England , on 5s a week , had migrated to South Australia in 1846 with his wife , who had been in service in ...
... March took up 564 acres in the Broughton area some thirty miles from Clare . March , a one - time farm labourer in Norfolk , England , on 5s a week , had migrated to South Australia in 1846 with his wife , who had been in service in ...
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... March 1868 , the provisions of which were tightened by amending acts in March 1880 , March 1884 , November 1885 and September 1886. But still the supporters and opponents were not satisfied , the former arguing that the cultivation of ...
... March 1868 , the provisions of which were tightened by amending acts in March 1880 , March 1884 , November 1885 and September 1886. But still the supporters and opponents were not satisfied , the former arguing that the cultivation of ...
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... March 1887 ; Age , 24 March 1887 ; J. A. Froude , Oceania , or England and Her Colonies ( London , 1886 ) , pp . 182-4 ; B. R. Penny , ' The Age of Empire : an Australian Episode ' , Historical Studies , Australia and New Zealand , vol ...
... March 1887 ; Age , 24 March 1887 ; J. A. Froude , Oceania , or England and Her Colonies ( London , 1886 ) , pp . 182-4 ; B. R. Penny , ' The Age of Empire : an Australian Episode ' , Historical Studies , Australia and New Zealand , vol ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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