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Author Lang, John Dunmore, 1799-1878.

Title John Dunmore Lang : Australia's pioneer republican : his life and times, chiefly in his own words / edited by Archibald Gilchrist and Gordon Powell
Published Wantirna, Vic. : New Melbourne Press, 1999

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Description 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction - Principal Angus Edmonds 7 -- Chapter -- 1 To Australia by Accident 15 -- 2 A Farm from a Forest 22 -- 3. Immorality in Sydey 30 -- 4. Rebuking the Governor 43 -- 5. Exciting Voages 59 -- 6 Bringing out Free Settlers 70 -- 7. The Champion of the Aborigines 76 -- 8. ExposingNew Zealand Land Grabbers 82 -- 9. Seling the Home, Saving the School 86 -- 10 Horse-whipped after Winning a Court Case 96 -- S11 A Governor with Loose Morals 104 -- 12 Meeting the Amerian President 109 -- 13, 'A Synagogue of Satan 122 -- 14. Confronting a Hostile Mob 133 -- 15, Political Success 141 -- 16 Lang versus Wentworth 147 -- 17 The Fight for Self-Governmen 152 -- 18 The Separation Hero 157 -- 19 A Founder of Queensland 166 -- 20 Lang, the Royalist Republican 179 -- 21. Lang Sent to Prison 194 -- 22. Lang's Fights for the Common Man 204 -- 23 Why 500 Chinese Marched 211 -- 24 Our Crazy Railway System 216 -- 25. Gold Miners, Bushrangers and Shop Assisant 222 -- 26 Sydney's Biggest Funeral 232 -- Appendices: -- A. Governors of New South Wales 1788-1879 239 -- B. Premiers of New South Wales 1856-1878 239 -- C Legislatures of New South Wales 18241869 240 -- D. Election Dates and Results 240 -- E Lang Family Register 241 -- F Lang's Twenty-one Voyages 242 -- G Diagram of Presbyterian divisions 243 -- H. Select Literature on Lang's Life 244
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 244) and index
Subject Lang, John Dunmore, 1799-1878.
Clergy -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Legislators -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Politicians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Presbyterian Church -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century.
Presbyterians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Presbyterians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Clergy -- Biography.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012007
Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1788-1851 -- Sources
Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1851-1901 -- Sources
New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Author Gilchrist, Archibald.
Powell, Gordon, 1911-2005
LC no. 2001320441
ISBN 0958624127