Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 01.01.2006 - 581 Seiten
Colonial Ambition tells the story of the politicians and would-be politicians of Sydney, who were driven by a determination to lift themselves and their new colony to a higher level. They wanted parliamentary liberty, though they were sharply divided over the form it might take and these divisions, centred in Sydney, were unremitting. Peter Cochrane tells of the fight for responsible government and democracy through a memorable cast of characters: W.C. Wentworth, Sir George Gipps, Robert Lowe, Lord Howick (Earl Grey), Henry Parkes, Charles Cowper, Lord John Russell and more, all of whom speak for themselves, in the robust language of the day. Written with great brio and verve, Peter Cochrane has brought to life the various players in a way that is very rare in the writing of Australian history. Colonial Ambition is testament that Australia does have a rich and exciting political history.

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Introduction
1
Round
39
Xili
63
3
69
4
96
5
106
6
125
7
136
17
283
18
292
19
302
20
325
21
341
22
353
23
368
24
384

8
150
9
157
10
169
11
197
12
219
13
229
14
241
15
252
16
267
The Torchlight Meeting
457
29
470
the Final Round
487
Notes
506
Index
543
25
544
487
550
27
572
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Seite 547 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that, of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Autoren-Profil (2006)

Historian Peter Cochrane is the author of the critically acclaimed companion volume to the ABC television series Australians at War (ABC Books, 2001) and Simpson and the Donkey- The Making of a Legend (Melbourne University Press, 1992). He is now at work on a new project, Bligh's Factotum, about William Bligh's sojourn in the colony of New South Wales.

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