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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... bourgeois press exposed with relish the gentry - dominated government of Victoria as a government of incapables who had allowed a lawless mob to be incited to rebellion by ' incoherent ravings ' about American revolutions , the Rights ...
... bourgeois press exposed with relish the gentry - dominated government of Victoria as a government of incapables who had allowed a lawless mob to be incited to rebellion by ' incoherent ravings ' about American revolutions , the Rights ...
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... bourgeois taste for equality of conditions in his monumental work on democracy in America.33 In the cities on nomination day all the candidates made their bow towards democracy . For the electorate of Sydney , one of the key electorates ...
... bourgeois taste for equality of conditions in his monumental work on democracy in America.33 In the cities on nomination day all the candidates made their bow towards democracy . For the electorate of Sydney , one of the key electorates ...
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... bourgeois civilization.36 Jack Robertson undertook to explain to the Legislative Council how this planting of petty - bourgeois landed proprietors in the bush would not menace the interests of the pastoral tenants of the Crown . In ...
... bourgeois civilization.36 Jack Robertson undertook to explain to the Legislative Council how this planting of petty - bourgeois landed proprietors in the bush would not menace the interests of the pastoral tenants of the Crown . In ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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