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 82
... bourgeoisie now realized to be inseparable from government by ' gentlemen'.42 Early in the New Year Sir Charles Hotham provided more evidence of what the Age called ' that wanton love of mischief ' which sometimes characterized the ...
... bourgeoisie now realized to be inseparable from government by ' gentlemen'.42 Early in the New Year Sir Charles Hotham provided more evidence of what the Age called ' that wanton love of mischief ' which sometimes characterized the ...
Page 84
... bourgeoisie there was much head - shaking , much lifting of the eye in anxiety and despair about the course of the war in the Crimea . The discovery of gold in California and Australia had heralded the realization of their dream of ...
... bourgeoisie there was much head - shaking , much lifting of the eye in anxiety and despair about the course of the war in the Crimea . The discovery of gold in California and Australia had heralded the realization of their dream of ...
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... bourgeoisie of the Australian colonies preferred to remain colonial and provincial rather than sail over those uncharted waters of in- dependence , partly because of the influence of the immigrants and partly because independence was ...
... bourgeoisie of the Australian colonies preferred to remain colonial and provincial rather than sail over those uncharted waters of in- dependence , partly because of the influence of the immigrants and partly because independence was ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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