The state and the people : Australian Federation and nation-making, 1870-1901 / by John Manning Ward ; editors Deryck M. Schreuder and Brian H. Fletcher with Ruth Hutchison
xxiii, 150 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents
1. The stable society and its enemies -- 2. Great expectations: the 1870s-1880s -- 3. Federation advocated -- 4. Federation achieved -- 5. Epilogue: Federation and the new liberalism
Summary
A major scholarly history of Australia's nation-making achievement, Federation. Respected Australian historian John Manning Ward was working on this text before his untimely death. Professors Schreuder and Fletcher have edited the extant manuscript, updating its relevance
