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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... gentry who had done his father such evil at Stoneleigh ; those ' boy commissioners ' , those ' insolent , arrogant coxcombs ' by their ' overbearing and insolent conduct ' had caused in part the ' lamentable disturbances ' . Like Hamlet ...
... gentry who had done his father such evil at Stoneleigh ; those ' boy commissioners ' , those ' insolent , arrogant coxcombs ' by their ' overbearing and insolent conduct ' had caused in part the ' lamentable disturbances ' . Like Hamlet ...
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... gentry and bespattered their velvet collars . 35 The elections had not produced a people's victory . The constitutions of the colonies had produced the political results they were designed to achieve : the gentry's ideal of the ...
... gentry and bespattered their velvet collars . 35 The elections had not produced a people's victory . The constitutions of the colonies had produced the political results they were designed to achieve : the gentry's ideal of the ...
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... gentry had established estates like the seats of the fine old country gentlemen in England . George Charles Hawker had established his seat at Bungaree near Clare : Francis Stacker Dutton had established his seat at Anlaby . Both were ...
... gentry had established estates like the seats of the fine old country gentlemen in England . George Charles Hawker had established his seat at Bungaree near Clare : Francis Stacker Dutton had established his seat at Anlaby . Both were ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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