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A colonial autocracy, New South Wales under Governor Macquarie, 1810-1821

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A colonial autocracy, New South Wales under Governor Macquarie, 1810-1821 (1909)
by Marion Phillips
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A COLONIAL AUTOCRACY


NEW SOUTH WALES
UNDER GOVERNOR MACQUARIE
1810-1821


by

MARION PHILLIPS

B.A. (Melbourne), D.Sc. Economics (London)




LONDON

P. S. KING & SON

ORCHARD HOUSE, WESTMINSTER

1909


This work is the Thesis on which the Author obtained the Degree of D.Sc. in the Faculty of Economics, of the University of London, June, 1908.



TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
page
Introduction. The Land and The People 1
CHAPTER II.
The Deposition of Bligh 22
CHAPTER III.
The Administrative Problem 47
CHAPTER IV.
The Liquor Trade 88
CHAPTER V.
Land, Labour and Commerce 109
CHAPTER VI.
On the High Seas 166
CHAPTER VII.
The Struggle between the Executive and the Judiciary 190
CHAPTER VIII.
The Embarrassments of an Autocrat 233
CHAPTER IX.
The Stirring of Political Aspirations 260
CHAPTER X.
New South Wales and the Imperial Parliament 289
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Index


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


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