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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... woman was brought before the Police Magistrate's Court for prowling about the streets in a state of ' dancing drunkenness ' ; another woman was accused of climbing over the fence into the soldiers ' barracks and threatening to knock a ...
... woman was brought before the Police Magistrate's Court for prowling about the streets in a state of ' dancing drunkenness ' ; another woman was accused of climbing over the fence into the soldiers ' barracks and threatening to knock a ...
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... woman from many hours formerly spent in sewing . Woman now had leisure which she could devote to reading , to music , to good works , or to that dissipation which caused creases to furrow the foreheads of a Bromby or a Pearson . Women ...
... woman from many hours formerly spent in sewing . Woman now had leisure which she could devote to reading , to music , to good works , or to that dissipation which caused creases to furrow the foreheads of a Bromby or a Pearson . Women ...
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... woman was to get married , and , having entered on that blessed state , her duty then was to love , honour , cherish and obey her husband . 55 As the prime exemplar of the great Australian paradox , that the country which was a pioneer ...
... woman was to get married , and , having entered on that blessed state , her duty then was to love , honour , cherish and obey her husband . 55 As the prime exemplar of the great Australian paradox , that the country which was a pioneer ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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