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 51
... fields , halcyon , romantic days before the overcrowding and the decline in the income of the diggers wiped the laugh off their faces and put rifles rather than picks and shovels on their shoulders . Only those with the gift of prophecy ...
... fields , halcyon , romantic days before the overcrowding and the decline in the income of the diggers wiped the laugh off their faces and put rifles rather than picks and shovels on their shoulders . Only those with the gift of prophecy ...
Page 134
... fields . Some moved to the Otago field in the South Island of New Zealand and were seen no more . Some moved on to the fields at Gympie , and from there to Charters Towers , and later to the Palmer field inland some one hundred miles ...
... fields . Some moved to the Otago field in the South Island of New Zealand and were seen no more . Some moved on to the fields at Gympie , and from there to Charters Towers , and later to the Palmer field inland some one hundred miles ...
Page 352
... fields of Ballarat , Bendigo , Buckland River , Kiandra and Lambing Flat , the diggers on the Palmer River greeted the arrival of the Celestials , as they called the Chinese , with a most unfavourable eye . As on the other fields the ...
... fields of Ballarat , Bendigo , Buckland River , Kiandra and Lambing Flat , the diggers on the Palmer River greeted the arrival of the Celestials , as they called the Chinese , with a most unfavourable eye . As on the other fields the ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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