| Description |
xiv, 222 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Boyhood and youth -- A minister and his calling -- The Australian College -- The "Colonist" -- The church militant -- Entering politics -- Migration muddles -- The legislative council -- Politics and propaganda -- The Bank of New South Wales -- The Scots Church -- The press and politics -- The church and the college -- Retirement |
| Summary |
"John Dunmore Lang had a finger in most pies in colonial New South Wales. He arrived in 1823, a young Presbyterian minister in search of a pulpit. Fifty years later his funeral befitted a founding father not only of the Presbyterian Church in Australia but of the nation itself."--BOOK JACKET. "He established the Scots Church and his own secondary school, the Australian College. He was a populist politician whose republican and democrat leanings strengthened during a quarter-century in the Legislative Council. He ran three newspapers. He circled the globe eight times; one of his many missions was to recruit clerics, along with respectable tradesmen and small farmers from the British Isles - anywhere but Papist Ireland. He wrote a book or two during most voyages."--BOOK JACKET |
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"And that is not the half of it. Volatile and vindictive, Lang loved a fight, answered only to God and was never still. Towards the end of a life peppered with church rifts, he was locked out of the very church he had built. The financial dealings of this fierce preacher of moral rectitude were labyrinthine and shady. They twice landed him in gaol - as did a willingness to libel opponents. Yet he was a hero to ordinary workers and a perceptive critic of the treatment of Aboriginal people."--BOOK JACKET. "Lang is a problematic giant from our colonial past. Don Baker, his cool, authoritative, gently ironic biographer, considers him 'almost as large a figure as he claimed to be'."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Biography |
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Clergy |
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Former Members |
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History, 1801-1900 |
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John Dunmore Lang |
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Lang, J D |
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New South Wales |
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Presbyterian Church |
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State parliaments |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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This is an abridgement for a wider readership of Baker's, Days of Wrath, 1985 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-215) and index |
| Notes |
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library |
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Signed by author 1 copy. ANU |
| Subject |
Lang, John Dunmore, 1799-1878.
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Clergy -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
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Legislators -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
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Politicians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
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Presbyterian Church -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Clergy -- Biography.
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Presbyterians -- Biography.
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Presbyterians -- Clergy -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Baker, D. W. A. (Donald William Archdall), 1922-2007.
Days of wrath : a life of John Dunmore Lang
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Baker, D. W. A. (Donald William Archdall), 1922-2007.
Days of wrath
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| LC no. |
98201228 |
| ISBN |
0522848222 |
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