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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... October to discuss the affair . A hot north wind , which had been blowing for two days , had already frayed the nerves of the diggers . Copious swigs at the black bottle had put them into a reckless mood . Under the influence of the ...
... October to discuss the affair . A hot north wind , which had been blowing for two days , had already frayed the nerves of the diggers . Copious swigs at the black bottle had put them into a reckless mood . Under the influence of the ...
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... October 1861 ; Empire , 21 October 1861 ; Freeman's Journal , 23 October 1861 ; Pastoral Times , 18 October 1861 ; Charles Kingsley in Victorian , 11 October 1862 ; H. W. Wardman , Ernest Renan ( London , 1964 ) , pp . 69-71 ; John ...
... October 1861 ; Empire , 21 October 1861 ; Freeman's Journal , 23 October 1861 ; Pastoral Times , 18 October 1861 ; Charles Kingsley in Victorian , 11 October 1862 ; H. W. Wardman , Ernest Renan ( London , 1964 ) , pp . 69-71 ; John ...
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... October 1862 to take up residence as a country gentleman at Wimborne in Dorset , not far from that village of Bockhampton where the young Thomas Hardy first observed the disruption of rural England by industrial civilization . Once ...
... October 1862 to take up residence as a country gentleman at Wimborne in Dorset , not far from that village of Bockhampton where the young Thomas Hardy first observed the disruption of rural England by industrial civilization . Once ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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