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A history of Australia IV : The earth abideth for ever 1851-1888 / C.M.H. Clark.
Record no.:
250
Author:
Clark, C. M. H. (Charles Manning Hope), 1915-1991;
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press,
Year:
1978.
Description:
xv, 427 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Prologue -- The possessed -- One step forward for the white man -- Who would want to be a digger? -- That bloody licence tax -- A colonial bourgeoisie -- Cheerful and confident -- Glory, folly and chance -- The bush barbarians -- The calm-down begins -- Colonial democrats -- The kingdom of nothingness -- Uproar in the bush -- The earth abideth for ever -- Epilogue.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0522841473;
Abstract:
"This 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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