A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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For the men who believed the aborigines were indispensable heirs to the same eternity as all other men , and that their happiness in this life , as well as hereafter , depended chiefly upon those who possessed the means to promote and ...
For the men who believed the aborigines were indispensable heirs to the same eternity as all other men , and that their happiness in this life , as well as hereafter , depended chiefly upon those who possessed the means to promote and ...
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When the aborigines obtained firearms , they had become as formidable in their descents on the settlers as the Kaffirs at the Cape of Good Hope . By the second half of 1826 he had come to the melancholy conclusion that the aborigine had ...
When the aborigines obtained firearms , they had become as formidable in their descents on the settlers as the Kaffirs at the Cape of Good Hope . By the second half of 1826 he had come to the melancholy conclusion that the aborigine had ...
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In one part of him , he had never given up the idea , or rather the hope , that the aborigines would be brought to know what he had got to know in the Bermudas , to his great comfort , that God's grace alone could work the great marvel ...
In one part of him , he had never given up the idea , or rather the hope , that the aborigines would be brought to know what he had got to know in the Bermudas , to his great comfort , that God's grace alone could work the great marvel ...
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Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838 Volume 2 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2011 |
| ISBN | 0522838219, 9780522838213 |
| Length | 364 pages |
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