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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The white men found it entertaining when the blackfellows became the worse for
liquor and mangled each other in fights which often ended in a death or some
loathsome injury . The outrages by the aborigines continued . Near Grafton on 13
...
The white men found it entertaining when the blackfellows became the worse for
liquor and mangled each other in fights which often ended in a death or some
loathsome injury . The outrages by the aborigines continued . Near Grafton on 13
...
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the guardian of aborigines , reported to the colonial secretary that at York a native
had tied a native woman by the throat to a tree . Another had put fire under the
legs of his ' gin ' for committing adultery . He reported that the aborigines who ...
the guardian of aborigines , reported to the colonial secretary that at York a native
had tied a native woman by the throat to a tree . Another had put fire under the
legs of his ' gin ' for committing adultery . He reported that the aborigines who ...
Page 217
There the white settlers , unrestrained by any idea of the aborigine as being
made in the image of God were ... When the aborigines continued to display
hostility after this first act of pacification , and repeated what the aborigines of Port
...
There the white settlers , unrestrained by any idea of the aborigine as being
made in the image of God were ... When the aborigines continued to display
hostility after this first act of pacification , and repeated what the aborigines of Port
...
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Contents
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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