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 97
... Parkes . Charles Harpur , who had held up Wentworth to ridicule as the turncoat who had begun his public career as a friend of the people and ended it as the ' bellowing champion of the few ' , was saddened : ' I like you , friend Parkes ...
... Parkes . Charles Harpur , who had held up Wentworth to ridicule as the turncoat who had begun his public career as a friend of the people and ended it as the ' bellowing champion of the few ' , was saddened : ' I like you , friend Parkes ...
Page 259
... Parkes decided to exploit the hysteria stirred up by the attempted assassination of the Prince and the arrival of Fenian convicts in Western Australia . He wrote to the chief secretary of Victoria , James McCulloch , to tell him his ...
... Parkes decided to exploit the hysteria stirred up by the attempted assassination of the Prince and the arrival of Fenian convicts in Western Australia . He wrote to the chief secretary of Victoria , James McCulloch , to tell him his ...
Page 374
... Parkes became an honoured guest in the ancestral house of the family which had destroyed his father . He began to feel more kindly towards a flunkeydom he had previously despised . He was now mixing on a footing of equality with those ...
... Parkes became an honoured guest in the ancestral house of the family which had destroyed his father . He began to feel more kindly towards a flunkeydom he had previously despised . He was now mixing on a footing of equality with 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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