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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At Oyster Cove some twenty miles from Hobart Town the fifty - five members of a
people which had probably numbered five thousand at the beginning of white
civilization , lived in a miserable collection of huts and outbuildings . They were ...
At Oyster Cove some twenty miles from Hobart Town the fifty - five members of a
people which had probably numbered five thousand at the beginning of white
civilization , lived in a miserable collection of huts and outbuildings . They were ...
Page 101
On 28 November 1855 the Hobart Town Courier railed against ' the deplorable
incubus of senility and drivelling ' in London and urged the English to ' shovel out
of town the traitors , fools , and triflers who beset the ark of the nation ' .
On 28 November 1855 the Hobart Town Courier railed against ' the deplorable
incubus of senility and drivelling ' in London and urged the English to ' shovel out
of town the traitors , fools , and triflers who beset the ark of the nation ' .
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For a brief moment two brave men confronted each other in a dustbowl town on
the Riverina before they went on their separate paths to the great ordeal of their
lives . Ned ordered Steve to give the watch back . The Reverend Mr Gribble ...
For a brief moment two brave men confronted each other in a dustbowl town on
the Riverina before they went on their separate paths to the great ordeal of their
lives . Ned ordered Steve to give the watch back . The Reverend Mr Gribble ...
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Contents
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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