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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... turning the worker on his own account into a Luddite , an opponent of all those steps forward which increased production ... turned forty . He was said to lack the sympathetic eye . By tem- perament he was at ease in those situations in ...
... turning the worker on his own account into a Luddite , an opponent of all those steps forward which increased production ... turned forty . He was said to lack the sympathetic eye . By tem- perament he was at ease in those situations in ...
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... turned to Byron for refreshment when confronted by the plains of desolation . After his arrival in Adelaide in 1850 , he tried his luck on the Victorian gold - fields but , Dame Fortune not smiling on him , he became a clerk in ...
... turned to Byron for refreshment when confronted by the plains of desolation . After his arrival in Adelaide in 1850 , he tried his luck on the Victorian gold - fields but , Dame Fortune not smiling on him , he became a clerk in ...
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... turned up for the torchlight procession through the town . A fortnight later he was in Adelaide . There a large crowd cheered him very heartily . What pleased him most of all was the large number of ' leading men ' on the station . As ...
... turned up for the torchlight procession through the town . A fortnight later he was in Adelaide . There a large crowd cheered him very heartily . What pleased him most of all was the large number of ' leading men ' on the station . As ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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