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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As one wag put it in the Sydney Morning Herald , he also left the diggers '
irrepressibly thirsty ' , because listening to one of the ' swell mob ' spout his
principles and talk about what he believed generally produced one simple
response in ...
As one wag put it in the Sydney Morning Herald , he also left the diggers '
irrepressibly thirsty ' , because listening to one of the ' swell mob ' spout his
principles and talk about what he believed generally produced one simple
response in ...
Page 359
Industrial civilization had already attracted huge numbers into the cities . The
population of Sydney increased from 137 586 in 1871 to 224 939 in 1881 ; in the
same decade the population of Melbourne increased from 206 780 to 282 947 .
Industrial civilization had already attracted huge numbers into the cities . The
population of Sydney increased from 137 586 in 1871 to 224 939 in 1881 ; in the
same decade the population of Melbourne increased from 206 780 to 282 947 .
Page 360
6 In neither Melbourne nor Sydney was there talk of some subterranean
explosion , or of the human antheap in the working - class districts of the two
suburbs erupting into violence or barbarizing the whole of society . Melbourne
and Sydney ...
6 In neither Melbourne nor Sydney was there talk of some subterranean
explosion , or of the human antheap in the working - class districts of the two
suburbs erupting into violence or barbarizing the whole of society . Melbourne
and Sydney ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 4 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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