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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... barbarism of the period before the coming of the white man . Goths and Vandals in the guise of Sydney radicals and socialists would destroy the essential foundations of civilized life in Aus- tralia . The country would be left as a ...
... barbarism of the period before the coming of the white man . Goths and Vandals in the guise of Sydney radicals and socialists would destroy the essential foundations of civilized life in Aus- tralia . The country would be left as a ...
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... barbarism . In Melbourne where the bourgeoisie had been fingering their watch - chains and wondering whether they dared to take the leap into nationhood , wild out- bursts of patriotic fervour drove all such thoughts out of the mind ...
... barbarism . In Melbourne where the bourgeoisie had been fingering their watch - chains and wondering whether they dared to take the leap into nationhood , wild out- bursts of patriotic fervour drove all such thoughts out of the mind ...
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... barbarism . Now , in the decade of the 1880s a new fear seized the heart of the bourgeoisie : there was barbarism in the Australian cities ; there was a spiritual desert in the heart of suburbia . 58 To add to the sense of insecurity ...
... barbarism . Now , in the decade of the 1880s a new fear seized the heart of the bourgeoisie : there was barbarism in the Australian cities ; there was a spiritual desert in the heart of suburbia . 58 To add to the sense of insecurity ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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