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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But no , their money was to be used to put to hard labour a number of strong , able - bodied fellows who would be driven to perform heavy and laborious work of no benefit to the colony as a punishment and a means of reforming their ...
But no , their money was to be used to put to hard labour a number of strong , able - bodied fellows who would be driven to perform heavy and laborious work of no benefit to the colony as a punishment and a means of reforming their ...
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Arthur , who was no supporter of severity , spent many an anxious moment , pondering how such a harsh punishment could stop short at the point where the victim was irretrievably hardened by the experience . Nowhere was this problem of a ...
Arthur , who was no supporter of severity , spent many an anxious moment , pondering how such a harsh punishment could stop short at the point where the victim was irretrievably hardened by the experience . Nowhere was this problem of a ...
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By September 1836 he was ready to turn his mind towards the reform of the criminal law , that vast empire not only for the punishment of wickedness and vice , but also for the promotion of human cruelty and suffering .
By September 1836 he was ready to turn his mind towards the reform of the criminal law , that vast empire not only for the punishment of wickedness and vice , but also for the promotion of human cruelty and suffering .
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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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