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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... Young had the advantage of the advice of the founding father of the constitution , William Charles Wentworth . He ... Young to Newcastle , 21 May 1861 , C.O. 201/518 . 42 Empire , 19 April 1861 ; S.M.H. , 19 April 1861 ; Charles Cowper ...
... Young had the advantage of the advice of the founding father of the constitution , William Charles Wentworth . He ... Young to Newcastle , 21 May 1861 , C.O. 201/518 . 42 Empire , 19 April 1861 ; S.M.H. , 19 April 1861 ; Charles Cowper ...
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... young Australians assumed the cunning , debased , sensual and cruel appearance of people who derived satisfaction from wounding other human beings . Flushed , panting young girls clung in romping abandon to the bodies of young men . The ...
... young Australians assumed the cunning , debased , sensual and cruel appearance of people who derived satisfaction from wounding other human beings . Flushed , panting young girls clung in romping abandon to the bodies of young men . The ...
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... Young , Sir Henry Edward Fox , 21 , 102 Young , Sir John , 134 , 141-2 Young ( N.S.W. ) , 134 ; see also Burrangong ; Lambing Flat Younghusbands Co , 168 Young Women's Christian Association , 389 ' Zheleznaya Doroga ' ( N. Nekrasov ) ...
... Young , Sir Henry Edward Fox , 21 , 102 Young , Sir John , 134 , 141-2 Young ( N.S.W. ) , 134 ; see also Burrangong ; Lambing Flat Younghusbands Co , 168 Young Women's Christian Association , 389 ' Zheleznaya Doroga ' ( N. Nekrasov ) ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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