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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... society , that head - on collision between Capital and Labour which had begun in Europe during the bloody June days in 1848 and broken out again in the murderous Paris Commune of March 1871. The very foundations of society would be ...
... society , that head - on collision between Capital and Labour which had begun in Europe during the bloody June days in 1848 and broken out again in the murderous Paris Commune of March 1871. The very foundations of society would be ...
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... society , and believed the dry rot in the foundation timbers of society required a remedy . As he saw it , a federal constitution would protect bourgeois society from the threat of red revolution . Under a federal constitution ...
... society , and believed the dry rot in the foundation timbers of society required a remedy . As he saw it , a federal constitution would protect bourgeois society from the threat of red revolution . Under a federal constitution ...
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... society . Western Australia was still a tiny society of Europeans and Aborigines , the former seeing no reason to shed the myth of British institutions and national progress , the latter too broken by the recent past to hold any ideas ...
... society . Western Australia was still a tiny society of Europeans and Aborigines , the former seeing no reason to shed the myth of British institutions and national progress , the latter too broken by the recent past to hold any ideas ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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