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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Radicalism and colonial nationalism were indelibly stained with racial
intolerance and ruffianism . 22 When the police attempted to arrest the
ringleaders of the barbarous assault on the Chinese , they only managed to catch
three of them .
Radicalism and colonial nationalism were indelibly stained with racial
intolerance and ruffianism . 22 When the police attempted to arrest the
ringleaders of the barbarous assault on the Chinese , they only managed to catch
three of them .
Page 328
From that time a wild look came into his eyes whenever he talked of the police ;
all his Irish gifts for vituperation and undying hostility were used in his
descriptions of his feelings towards the police . For him they were those men who
' came into ...
From that time a wild look came into his eyes whenever he talked of the police ;
all his Irish gifts for vituperation and undying hostility were used in his
descriptions of his feelings towards the police . For him they were those men who
' came into ...
Page 331
Others in Melbourne accused the police of suffering from the same weakness that
had bedevilled the force in New South Wales in the man - hunts for Ben Hall and
the Clarke brothers , the same folly that had sapped the strength of the British ...
Others in Melbourne accused the police of suffering from the same weakness that
had bedevilled the force in New South Wales in the man - hunts for Ben Hall and
the Clarke brothers , the same folly that had sapped the strength of the British ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 4 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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