A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915The 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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Page 102
... gentry which allowed their scanty money to slide through their pockets like water through a sieve . In her years of extravagances of piety and desperate clinging to the illusion of being ' county ' she married George Frederick Cross , a ...
... gentry which allowed their scanty money to slide through their pockets like water through a sieve . In her years of extravagances of piety and desperate clinging to the illusion of being ' county ' she married George Frederick Cross , a ...
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... gentry , had her English - educated soldier son with her . She was richly gowned in white . The Government House set , country gentry and army officers were already features of the Australian social landscape . Labor eyed the presence ...
... gentry , had her English - educated soldier son with her . She was richly gowned in white . The Government House set , country gentry and army officers were already features of the Australian social landscape . Labor eyed the presence ...
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... gentry in Australia who claimed descent from the Norman barons who civilized the rude Anglo - Saxon and Celtic barbarian inhabitants of the British Isles . He was born on 16 April 1865 at Tabulam on the Clarence River in New South Wales ...
... gentry in Australia who claimed descent from the Norman barons who civilized the rude Anglo - Saxon and Celtic barbarian inhabitants of the British Isles . He was born on 16 April 1865 at Tabulam on the Clarence River in New South Wales ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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