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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... gentlemen , Burke and Wills ; they vilified the non - gentlemen , such as Landells and Wright , as cowardly , ignorant and lazy men who had contributed to the death of two men with the courage and the capacity to solve the problem of ...
... gentlemen , Burke and Wills ; they vilified the non - gentlemen , such as Landells and Wright , as cowardly , ignorant and lazy men who had contributed to the death of two men with the courage and the capacity to solve the problem of ...
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... gentlemen , including Sir Henry Barkly , Lady Barkly , Lady Bowen , Sir William Stawell , Lady Stawell , Fer- dinand von Mueller , Mr Burke's nanny and others of that class filed past the coffins in the Royal Society . So did John King ...
... gentlemen , including Sir Henry Barkly , Lady Barkly , Lady Bowen , Sir William Stawell , Lady Stawell , Fer- dinand von Mueller , Mr Burke's nanny and others of that class filed past the coffins in the Royal Society . So did John King ...
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... gentlemen present , the huge crowd expressed their most enthusiastic applause when the name of John King was mentioned . * 1 The men who had raised doubts about the capacity of gentlemen to win wars and govern people , the ones who at ...
... gentlemen present , the huge crowd expressed their most enthusiastic applause when the name of John King was mentioned . * 1 The men who had raised doubts about the capacity of gentlemen to win wars and govern people , the ones who at ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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