xiv. 575 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents
Machine derived contents note: Part I: Foundations To Build Upon -- Chapter One Importing Independency 1 -- Chapter Two The Dependent Independent 13 -- Chapter Three An Independent Independent 33 -- Chapter Four Lights That Come and Go 49 -- Chapter Five The Price of Independence 61 -- Chapter Six Price and Principle 71 -- Part Ii: The Coming Of John West -- Chapter Seven An Irish Wesleyan Inheritance? 111 -- Chapter Eight The Home Missionary 125 -- Chapter Nine A Peculiar People 135 -- Chapter Ten County of Dissent 143 -- Chapter Eleven Independents for the Colonies 159 -- Chapter Twelve Becoming Unsettled 165 -- Chapter Thirteen Sarah to Narcissa and Coleshill to Hobart Town 175 -- Part Iii: Being Somewhere Else -- Chapter Fourteen The Road To Launceston 189 -- Chapter Fifteen The Mind of Frederick Miller 199 -- Chapter Sixteen Untoward Events 211 -- Chapter Seventeen Periodical Appearances 221 -- Chapter Eighteen An Unpleasant Division of Opinion 231 -- Chapter Nineteen In A Wrong Name 241 -- Chapter Twenty The Case of J. West 261 -- Part Iv: The Usefulness Of John West -- Chapter Twenty-one Events of Some Moment 273 -- Chapter Twenty-two Promised Land or Van Diemen's Land 299 -- Chapter Twenty-three Pro-Transportation 313 -- Chapter Twenty-four Colonial Education and the State 325 -- Chapter Twenty-five Insolences and Insolvencies 339 -- Chapter Twenty-six Treasonable Countenances and Establishment 347 -- Chapter Twenty-seven Probation, Patriotic Revolution, Islam and Art 359 -- Chapter Twenty-eight An Agent in London 373 -- Chapter Twenty-nine Spheres of Usefulness 387 -- Chapter Thirty The History of Tasmania 395 -- Chapter Thirty-one Gaols and Golden Prospects 409 -- Chapter Thirty-two Immigration replaces Transportation 425 -- Chapter Thirty-three Nunc Dimittis 435
