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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... bushrangers . By June 1867 three bushrangers had been executed , two were then under sentence of death , seven had been shot dead , one was supposed to have been murdered by his fellow - bushrangers , and eight were undergoing long ...
... bushrangers . By June 1867 three bushrangers had been executed , two were then under sentence of death , seven had been shot dead , one was supposed to have been murdered by his fellow - bushrangers , and eight were undergoing long ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. participating in the spoils of the bushrangers , of enjoying both the bush- rangers ' rum and the bushrangers ' women . The bushrangers , it was said , used part of their spoils to corrupt a whole ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. participating in the spoils of the bushrangers , of enjoying both the bush- rangers ' rum and the bushrangers ' women . The bushrangers , it was said , used part of their spoils to corrupt a whole ...
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... bushranging and bushrangers , 393 ; cap- tured by police , 202 , 326 , 333 ; menace to homesteads , 203-4 , 207-8 , 328 ; murder police , 201-2 , 208 , 327 , 330 ; as people's heroes , 202 , 204-6 , 209-10 , 327-8 , 330 , 334-7 , 347 ...
... bushranging and bushrangers , 393 ; cap- tured by police , 202 , 326 , 333 ; menace to homesteads , 203-4 , 207-8 , 328 ; murder police , 201-2 , 208 , 327 , 330 ; as people's heroes , 202 , 204-6 , 209-10 , 327-8 , 330 , 334-7 , 347 ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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